German code breaking in World War II German code breaking in World War II German code breaking in World War II achieved some notable successes cracking British Naval ciphers until well into the fourth year of the war, but also suffered from a problem typical of the German armed forces of the time: numerous branches and institutions maintained their own cryptographic departments, working on their own without collaboration or sharing results with equivalent units. This led to duplicated effort, to a fragmentation of potential, and to lower efficiency than might have been achieved. There was no central German cryptography agency comparable to the British Bletchley Park facility.
The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton. Taylor had previously written "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe", which covered the period 1848 until 1918. As he later wrote in his autobiography: I wanted to be writing something and decided that I could carry on my diplomatic history from the point where the "Struggle for Mastery" left off. I had, I thought, done most of the