"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

Germany's poor code skills cost them the First World War. In World War Two, they knew they needed something bigger and better. Enter the Enigma Machine, capable of an almost infinite number of combinations, and almost impossible to crack. But a team of Polish mathematicians were sure that everyone else was going about it all wrong, and set out to break the code for themselves. | War Stories