Thursday, September 6, 2012

German disinformation operations - Case Kremlin 1942

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In the summer of 1942 the German forces in the Eastern Front were able to achieve strategic surprise against the Soviet military leadershi...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

German Army codebreakers vs Typex

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The Typex cipher machine was used by the British during WWII as their high level crypto system. According to many authors the German codebr...
Monday, September 3, 2012

WWII Myths - U-boat tankers and ULTRA intelligence

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Several books and articles mention that in the summer of 1943 the Allies were able to sink the majority of the German U-boat tankers thanks ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Italian codebreakers of WWII

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Fascist Italy was one of the main Axis powers. At the start of WWII Mussolini remained neutral but he joined the war in 1940 after it was ob...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Book review - Brute Force

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Practically all histories of WWII follow the same structure: initially the Axis powers manage to surprise the Allies and win some great vict...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

German disinformation operations - The 1930’s crises and the mighty Luftwaffe

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In the 1930’s Hitler was able to outmaneuver the Franco-British alliance and achieve his foreign policy goals without a shot being fired. ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Soviet cipher teleprinters of WWII

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At the start of the Soviet-German war the cipher machines used by Soviet authorities were the K-37 ‘Crystal’ (a modified Hagelin B-211) and ...