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Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine Andrew Gumbel © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses. A new book published later this month presents extraordinary evidence that the refugees, all Germans who had fled from Nazi-annexed Sude...