13K views · 104 reactions | The Bombe: How Codebreakers Cracked Enigma's Secrets The Bombe, built during wartime, was a monumental step toward modern computing. It enabled Allied codebreakers to decrypt Enigma at scale, expanding from 6 machines in 1941 to ~200 across the UK, operated largely by Wrens. #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #intelligence #ULTRA #EpicHistory | Epic History TV | Facebook

"To break the code, you could try each different setting of the Enigma machine one after the other, but it would take you around five trillion years..." Find out how the German Enigma machine really worked. And how British codebreakers at Bletchley Park were able to finally crack it during the Second World War. Watch Uncovering the Enigma: Bletchley Park on History Hit TV: https://access.historyhit.com/videos/uncovering-the-enigma-bletchley-park | History Hit