It's a record code-breaker: 73 year old working Nazi Enigma machine sells for £367,000
A rare Enigma machine designed for use by the German Navy during World War II has smashed its estimate by selling for a record-breaking £367,000. The fully operational M4 Naval Enigma was ordered in 1941 by the head of the German Navy Admiral Karl Doenitz who correctly suspected the the M3 Enigma had been compromised by the British codebreakers at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire.
The M4 was entered into Bonhams‘ History of Science and Technology sale in New York on Wednesday. Bletchley Park became the home of the world’s first purpose-built computer centre, famously managing to break the Nazi codes, and hastening the end of the war.