Comments by "BunzeeBear" (@bunzeebear2973) on "Endsieg: Germany's Final Plan to Win WW2 1943-45 | Animated History" video.

  1. 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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  2. 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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