Enigma found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea

In a fishing net in the Baltic sea, a diver discovered the Enigma used by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Reportedly, it was discovered in November in an area 150km north of Hamburg, Germany. The machine discovered by the diver is the Enigma used by Nazi Germany to transmit the code during World War II. The diver accidentally discovered an enormous treasure while searching for an object that sank in the sea called Ghostnet through a WWF request from the World Nature Conservation Fund.

Divers said they went into the sea as part of the WWF environmental protection program, saw something like an old typewriter, and then lifted it, and later discovered that it was a historical treasure. Enigma was later handed over to the German Archaeological Museum. It is said that it will take about a year to repair Enigma here. It is said that it will be displayed in the archaeological museum after restoration.

Nazi Germany used Enigma to encrypt wireless communications during the war. However, a code that was considered impregnable was decoded by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1941. How Enigma sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea is unknown, but German historians estimate that it was dumped into the sea by a German warship at the end of World War II. The discovered Enigma was not a four-rotor that could be mounted on a German submarine U-boat to create more complex codes.

Thousands of Enigma were produced from the 1930s to the 1940s, but not many exist. Only about 50 are exhibited in museums around the world, and the rest are private collections. In 2015, a rare type of Enigma M4 was auctioned and won for $365,000. Related information can be found here .