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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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Originally Posted by Puster Bill
You can actually see in that excerpt that the Germans are reading the U-boat situation reports put out by the British. It helps to know what the other guy knows about you...
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Peter Padfield, in his book War Beneath the Sea, makes the observation that the British were happily congratulating themselves on their cracking of the German codes, but it never seemed to occur to them that the enemy might be reading their mail as well. Hubris is a lovely thing.  |
Possibly the closest the British came to giving away the fact they were reading the German codes was in early to mid 44 when the Admiralty sunk the tanker Charlotte Schliemann in the Indian Ocean where she was meant to refuel Monsun boats, despite explicit orders from the British Government not to.
Enter the last ressuply tanker Brake.....