Divers stumble upon rare Nazi Enigma machine at bottom of Baltic Sea
The recovered machine was rusted but relatively intact, with several keys and their letters clearly visible. The team quickly realized they had stumbled across a historical artifact and alerted the authorities. They turned the machine over to a museum for restoration earlier this month. An enigma cipher machine found in the Baltic Sea in front of the archaeological office of German federal state Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig, Germany, December 4, 2020. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP, File) The Nazis produced thousands of the machines in several models, but only a few hundred are known to have sur...