Comments by "BunzeeBear" (@bunzeebear2973) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

Hitler firmly held onto the belief than Enigma was unbreakable. It was. The receivers were to be destroyed if a German with a unit was caught. Which happened numerous times. But there is a story of a young new pilot did not know the airstrip he was landing on in the fog, and safely landed and got out of his plane and was walking toward mess and only when he got near did he realize he landed on the allies landing strip. He did not see anyone outside or the type of aircraft flown as they were all out, but as he neared the mess-hall he could hear them talking behind in English.. His plane was complete and needed refueling so he could not just jump in and fly away. His Enigma machine was complete and working. So the allies got a lucky break by having a working machine. They may have got 3 machines(various sources-plane,tank,sub) and these were sent up to the UK code breakers so they could watch it in action. Hitler did not know for 3 years that the code was being deciphered and the allies knew all the moves he was planning. Because he had so much faith in the one system, they continued to use it to the bitter end. I read that from a couple other recounts of the war. . I believe (if I remember correctly) the Japanese used the same encryption system. ..Because of how the system worked it was so random that you needed a receiver to translate it. The raft of British code breakers could not break that code without a working machine. .So essentially all they had to do was listen in on the commands and respond to the Bigger events (so they did not show their hand that they had captured a working machine.(otherwise the Germans would have used a different encryption method.) if they KNEW Enigma had been broken.
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@shrutigupta4955 I believe the Hindu one points in the other direction. Then again it is in Ancient Egypt 3500BCE and they do not know what it means . It is just a shape. Like the Circle, or square. Maybe an interior designer was there with an idea for a pattern? Also in clay tablets of Ancient Sumerian text BCE4000.
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Belgians? Maybe they were Waffling? Hitler advanced through many countries because he blackmailed the leaders of that country. Hitler knew about their wrongdoings more than their people knew; so to stay in power as Hitler promised, they did not put up a fight.? Seems like there was a lot of screwing the public was happening in many Countries. Hitler took advantage of that.
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Planting spuds to be exact.
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The Swas. is shown on you tube. Just not in this video. Both represent Germany.
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The battle in Europe was really confusing as to who was doing who when and where for what reason?
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Otto Diesel invented the diesel engine and the fuel was derived from plants(so that farmers could plant a oil bearing crop and then distill or filter out the grain oil which would run their diesel engines for CHEAP.Grain oils can be got out of certain crops. Biodiesel would work as fuel. So why was that never implemented in tanks(which are basically tractor motors. Why did Hitler decide on using gasoline as Germany did not own any oil fields? They were not that slow considering that Germany was still using horses and wagons to transport men around the country. He also had scientists develop a fuel from coal which Germany had lots of. I never could understand that.
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Had Hitler or other high command realized that the enigma code was broken,(as a plane landed in the WRONG airfield so the fully functional enigma machine was available to the Allies) this war could have lasted longer and have turned out differently than it did. Dumb luck that the Germans did not realize a capture of a good machine had happened.
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@dontblinkyoumightdie 60 hours? That is just 10 hour days. A farmer puts in 12+ hour days which is NORMAL. Make hay while the sun is shining. Loggers & fishermen put in long hours too and many other trades.
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@yxngjxck5715 You do realize that not every German was a NAZI? The Nazi's was a political party, so not everyone was with that party. Politics was a big city thing. Small towns and country folk had not affiliation to ANY PARTY. They farmed and grew food or worked making high quality stuff.
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The Iron Cross is older and was used on WW1 aircraft like the Red Baron.
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