Enigmas, Shmigmas: Polish Ciphers and the Miracle on the Vistula
Also relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Enigma_double
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P5Ka5PwXXg
Mods, be merciful I realize this is somewhat low effort and I suck at memeing, but I love this community for the history I learn here.
Spoiler: ::: spoiler spoiler Get closer to Poland, we'll fuck you :::
while what the Polish code breakers did was a great feat in and of its self, to really dumb it down, it was basically brute forcing the encryption while knowing some parts of a message in advance and rebuilding the workings of the conductive disks.
sadly, the methods they used were easily defeated by adding an extra disk