• detection, the duration of messages needed to be minimised; for this, Kurzsignale short-coding was used. To prevent interception, messages needed to be...
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  • of World War II, the German Kriegsmarine developed a system known as kurzsignale for sending radio signals from U-boats back to headquarters. At the time...
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    that turned routine messages into short-length messages. The resulting "kurzsignale" was then encoded with the Enigma machine (for security) and transmitted...
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    got onto U-110 and stripped it of everything portable, including her Kurzsignale code book and Enigma machine. William Stewart Pollock, a former radio...
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    The settings for high-level "officer-only" signals, "short-signals" (Kurzsignale) and codes standardising messages to defeat HF/DF fixes by sheer speed...
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    decipher U-boat messages, a source of cribs was found. This was the Kurzsignale (short signals), a code which the German navy used to minimise the duration...
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    Navy's Kurzsignale code system which condensed messages into short codes, and the fully automated burst encoding Kurier system that sent a Kurzsignale in...
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    capture and the seizure of a German Naval Enigma (enigma machine) and its Kurzsignale code book. The Flower-class arose as a result of the Royal Navy's realisation...
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  • cipher and a copy of the short signal book (German: Kurzsignalbuch or Kurzsignale for short) was recovered from the submarine U-110, that was captured...
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    German submarine U-110 (1940) HMS Bulldog (H91) Joe Baker-Cresswell Kurzsignale List of museums in Ontario Monteith POW camp Camp 23 Christopher H. Sterling...
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