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From what I'm reading, it wasn't as decisive as "costing Germany the war". Instead if would have delayed D-day and other operations by a year or more but the b
by dmichulke 3y ago
From what I'm reading, it wasn't as decisive as "costing Germany the war".
Instead if would have delayed D-day and other operations by a year or more but the benefit is arguably on the side of Germany because both the Soviet Union (making Germany "pay") and the US (first use of the atomic bomb there?) had more sinister intentions.
https://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-allies-had-not-broken-the-german-naval-code/ https://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-allies-had-not-broken...
- WalterBright 3y agoEnigma caused the U-boot campaign to fail. Many U-boot commanders were convinced that Enigma was compromised, as the circumstances of the losses were too coincidental. But Admiral Doenitz doggedly refused to believe that. All the Kriegsmarine needed to do was layer on a one-time pad - a simple and effective technique. But nope. The failure of Enigma also caused Rommel to lose the Afrika campaign. The Allies knew when and where his supply ships were coming, and sank them one after the other. Rommel knew that these losses were only explainable by espionage, but believed the Allied disinformation and misdirection as to the cause.
- dmichulke 3y agoInteresting points that I wasn't aware of. Still, in my understanding this doesn't seem to make a German victory more likely in retrospect because it wouldn't have sufficiently impacted the campaign in the East. At best I see more fuel, stronger Italy, and weaker GB in it.