This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...

Every flea-market aficionado dreams of the day they find a true treasure. Not so long ago, that day came for a collector at a flea market in Bucharest, Romania, who found an intact German Enigma ...

When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts ...

A very rare Enigma coding machine from World War II has been sold at Sotheby’s this week for an impressive $233,000. The Enigma machine was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end ...

It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt. A spotlight shone on them from the HMS Petard, the Royal Navy destroyer ...

To many, the Enigma machine is an enigma. But it’s really quite simple. The following is a step-by-step explanation of how it works, from the basics to the full machine. Possibly the greatest ...