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WWII German Enigma Machine For Sale on eBay
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From time to time, I have watched historical documentaries and questions about the enigma have arisen where they go and take a detailed look at the machine.
Also It would be good for this machine to be in permanent public view and as an educational aide to mathematics or engineering students.
AgaBoogaBoo
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How would this be an educational aide? If anything, they'd be using a program that simulates the actual item.
As for public view, I guess so, are there any in museums right now though?
AnitaPeterson
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I think someone should e-mail Neal Stephenson... should make a nice complement to his "Cryptonomicon" novel.
You're proud of that? I'd be proud if my great grandpa chose to die or go to prison instead of help the Nazi war effort.
dug777
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Not so easy to say for the German people.
Personally, i can't see any real reason why he shouldn't be proud of that. It wasn't as if the machine was used to kill millions of jews, i sincerely doubt it had anything to do with any of that, and even if it did, there's no way his great grandpa would have known...or something.
If his family was under threat, I would accept his actions. I still would not be proud- I would view it as the actions of a desperate man. In this situation, his great grandpa wouldn't have been proud of what he did either. If he did it willingly, because he believed in what his country was doing, that's definately not a reason to be proud. That's absurd to say that it didn't directly slaughter millions of Jews. The machine was used to encrypt messages for the war for world domination and Nazi supremacy, which included the Holocaust. Why do you think many people refused to work for the regime?
TallBill
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I'm a U.S. soldier and I'd be extremely proud of any family that served on any side during the conflict. There is honor in serving your country. Politicians do the rights and wrongs, soldiers just do their job. It not like he was in a death squad. Most regular german troops had nothing to do with slaughter of innocents.
GTaudiophile
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