Bletchley park enigma simulator
That was far too long – Switzerland had to look for a new supplier. The Swiss army had to wait at least two years for the last batch of 180 Enigmas. However, time was short and there were not too many options. It is extraordinary that such delicate devices should have been purchased in neighbouring Germany, of all places. The higher number of wheels meant that more power was needed to operate the machine. In addition, the wheel drive was irregular. It had significantly more wheels than the Enigma. The Nema – a machine developed independently in Switzerland and put into operation in 1947. The army’s material management department modified the devices, changing, among other things, the wiring of the wheels and the drive mechanism. By July 1942, they had 265 Enigma K machines.
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The Swiss were delighted with the machines and immediately ordered more.
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Ritter describes in an article how Switzerland obtained these machines: ‘The first machines arrived in 1938 as an adjunct to 14 heavy wireless stations that Switzerland had ordered from Germany in 1937’. The machines came from World War II Swiss army stocks. That caused a sensation – for at that time, these devices were already sought after far beyond the narrow circle of collectors and fetched a high price. Among the items disposed of, it said, would be Enigma machines.
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Only three weeks before, the then Federal Military Department had sent out a short invitation to a sale of transmission material. But the people hurrying to the barracks hardly noticed.