World’s Oldest Enigma Machine In Denmark Is Extremely Unique

MessageToEagle.com – World’s oldest enigma machine has been standing at the Post and Tele Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark for 16 years. It wasn’t really known until recently that this particular enigma machine is unique and extremely rare.

The machine was pulled up from the ocean floor in the early 1990s by a fisherman around the inlet of the Flensburg Fjord in Jutland.

The enigma machines were a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines developed and used to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication. Enigma was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. The first military Enigma machines were produced for the German army already in 1932.

The machines were of great military value as they provided information on ships’ and submarines’ positions.

According to Ph.D. the Andreas Marklund, a researcher at the museum who helped in the study, several international experts have examined the enigma machine.  The machine was in poor condition, but scientists finally found a hidden serial number that cast more light on the machine’s history. The serial number revealed the enigma machine is in fact the oldest of its kind!

David Hamer, one of the world’s most renowned experts in cryptology has confirmed the machine is truly unique and he has registered the ‘Danish’ Enigma on its list of all the world’s Enigma machines.

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“It is important that we, as happened here, constantly get more information about the enigma machine’s story because the device played a vital role in World War II. As the codes were broken, the Allies could gain direct insight into important German communication,” David Hamer says.

There is still a lot we don’t know about the enigma machine in Denmark. Experts will conduct further studies to determine who used the machine and where. It is possible that machine was on a German WWII ship and was thrown overboard. There is no way to say for certain without examining the German archives first.

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