The Code They Didn’t Know Was Broken — Germany’s Biggest Intel Mistake of WWII

And that ignorance, more than any Allied weapon, shaped the course of the Second World War.

July 8, 1941. German Navy Headquarters. Berlin.

A routine encrypted message arrives from a U-boat in the North Atlantic. The signal, like thousands before it, has been composed on a machine the Germans believe is mathematically unbreakable.

Enigma.

Hundreds of trillions of possible combinations. Absolute security. The perfect cipher.

Except that on the same morning, at a quiet English estate called Bletchley Park, British codebreakers read the exact same message. In plain German.

For the entire war, the Allies read German military communications almost in real time. And the Germans never knew. Not during the war. Not at the surrender. Not for thirty years afterward.

This is the story of the greatest intelligence failure in military history.

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📌 TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - The Message They Never Knew Was Read
2:30 - The Faith That Became Blindness
5:45 - Poland 1932: Three Mathematicians Who Changed History
9:15 - The Gift That Saved Britain
13:00 - Breaking Naval Enigma: The Capture of U-110
17:30 - Ultra: The Secret Churchill Could Never Reveal
19:45 - The Warnings Germany Ignored
21:30 - D-Day: Intelligence Shapes the Invasion
24:15 - The Cruel Cost of Secrecy
26:00 - 1974: The Truth Finally Revealed
27:45 - "Everything We Did Was For Nothing" - Dönitz's Reaction
29:00 - The Psychology of Certainty: Why They Never Knew

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