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Originally Posted by MetalMania
I haven't seen it in a while but I think at the end they DO scroll some text saying that the British were the ones who recovered the Enigma along with some other factual information.
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Let me quote Wikipedia here:
The Biuro Szyfrów, (Polish for "Cipher Bureau") was the interwar Polish General Staff's agency charged with both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptology (the study of ciphers and codes, particularly for the purpose of "breaking" them)...
...Beginning in December 1932, the Cipher Bureau broke the German Enigma machine cipher and, over the next nearly seven years before World War II, overcame the growing structural and operating complexities of the plugboard-equipped Enigma. The Enigma would be the main German cipher device during the Second World War. Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Cipher Bureau revealed Poland's Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to the French and British. Poland thereby made possible the western Allies' vitally important decryption of Nazi German secret communications (Ultra) during World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfr%C3%B3w
Thus, any Western Enigma movie makes people in Poland (well, at leat the ones who give a **** about their nation's history) laugh and/or shake their heads in disbelief.