How Did Hitler Use The Bismarck

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“Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.” (Adolf Hitler). I feel as if Hitler said this because he wanted to advance the weapons of not only Germany, but for the world. The weapons of war from the American Revolution to the second World War have advanced significantly. From a gunpowder musket to the machine gun; it takes not only a lot of work, but revolutionary thinkers. One tremendous advance was the Bismarck. The Bismarck was German battleship used by Hitler to protect attacking enemy ships. It was up and running on February 14th 1939; first being used as a radar to attack British Convoys. The Bismarck weighed over 50,000 tons and 40% of the weight was armor; because of the weight it could not go as fast as regular battleships. The fastest the Bismarck could achieve was twenty-nine knots. The crew that could be on the ship was two thousand 200 hundred people and one hundred commanding officers. On May 27th, 1941 and only 116 people survived the sinking of the Bismark. (Bismarck).
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The German Military used the Enigma Machine since 1920. During the time World War Two came along, it had advanced some. The way the machine worked as the operator typed a message and then the Enigma machine scrambled the words using a complicated letter system generated by rotors and electric circuits. To decode a Enigma message, one must need to know the exact settings of the wheels and gears of the machine. German military generals and officers believed that the Enigma Code Machine was unbreakable so they used it for practically everything, battlefield, naval, and just normal war talk. The Polish came close to cracking the Enigma codes by improvising and getting tremendous help from the British at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire where a team of intelligent experts eventually cracked the code.

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