Divers performing clean-up services in the Baltic Sea discovered a lost Nazi Enigma machine from World War II.
The divers, who were clearing the sea of fishing nets that could potentially harm wildlife on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), discovered the machine in the Bay of Gelting off the coast of northern Germany.
All That’s Interesting reports that diving teams usually find plenty of objects tangled together with nets. However, these objects are typically trees or stones, not coveted historical artifacts.
According to Reuters, the divers initially thought they had stumbled upon nothing more than an old typewriter. After underwater archaeologist Florian Huber took a closer look, though, the true nature of the contraption became clear.
“I’ve made many exciting and strange discoveries in the past 20 years,” Huber told Reuters. “But I never dreamt that we would one day find one of the legendary Enigma machines.”
The Enigma machine was used as an encryption device by the Nazis to send out heavily encoded pieces of information throughout the conflict. The device was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius after World War I, and proved to be the bane of British intelligence’s existence for a good portion of the war.
It was only when Alan Turing—a renowned scientist credited with creating the modern-day computer—cracked the code at Bletchley Park that the Allied Forces could use Enigma against the Germans, turning the tide of the war
Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed Turing in the 2014 historical drama “The Imitation Game.” The movie focused on Turing’s rush against time to crack the Enigma, as well as his tragic life after the war’s events.
This recently discovered Enigma machine is believed to have been purposefully thrown overboard by German soldiers. It will be donated to the archaeology museum in Schleswig.
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