Used by Nazis, cracked by Turing, sold by Sotheby's : Rare surviving Enigma expected to fetch y£70,000 at auction (fwd)

10 July 2015

Used by Nazis, cracked by Turing, sold by Sotheby's : 
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Rare surviving Enigma machine expected to fetch £70,000 at auction
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- Enigma 1, known as Wehrmacht or 'Services' Enigma, dates from 1930-38 
- It was used by German military and also railways before and during war
- Machine is one of earlier models with just three rotors; later ones 
  had five
- About 100,000 Enigma machines were made until the fall of Third Reich
- Few survived as Germans tended to destroy them as they retreated
- Codebreakers led by Alan Turing worked to decipher Nazi machines at 
  Bletchley Park

By Nick Enoch for MailOnline

A rare early German Enigma machine that WWII codebreaking hero Alan Turing 
worked hard to decipher is to go under the hammer.

The Enigma 1, which dates from between 1930 and 1938 is also known as the 
Wehrmacht, or 'Services' Enigma, and was used extensively by German 
military services and other government organisations such as the railways 
before and during the war.

It is one of the earlier models with just three rotors while later ones 
had five...../snip/


Read more :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3156554/Nazi-Enigma-machine-expected-sell-70-000.html

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/07/10/18/2A69682200000578-3156554-The_Enigma_1_which_dates_from_between_1930_and_1938_is_also_know-m-22_1436548314222.jpg

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/10/enigma-machine-goes-up-for-auction

http://artdaily.com/news/79943/Rare-and-well-preserved-World-War-II-Enigma-machine-to-be-offered-at-Sotheby-s-on-14-July-2015#.VaJ_1N2A8yo

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http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l15404/lot.55.html

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