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A new book by Dominik Landwehr
On 8 November 2008 we were invited at the presentation of Dominik Landwehr's
new book Mythos Enigma. The book also acted as Dominik's dissertation
in 2007 at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Basel University.
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The event took place at the Medienkunstforum [plug.in] in Basel (Switserland) and turned out to be a real Enigma day.
Dominik presented the most important results of his study and Swiss
thriller author Peter Zeindler spoke about his most secret sources.
During the event, demonstrations of a number of important cipher machines
were held by a number of contributors, such as Gerhard Sulger Buel,
John Alexander, Dr. Rudi Ritter, Walter Schmid and Walter Gruber.
The latter was representing Crypto AG (Hagelin).
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Among the distinguised guests was
Oskar Sturzinger, the very first employee and later vice-president
of the Hagelin Crypto company (now Crypto AG),
who gave a talk on the Hagelin history and demonstrated
some of the earlies machines, such as the
B-21
and the C-35.
Paul Reuvers and Marc Simons of the Crypto Museum were present to demonstrate
the famous Russian Fialka
cipher machine and the very rare
Zählwerk Enigma
also known as Enigma-G.
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The video below shows an impression of the various demonstrations that
were given this day. We see Gerhard Sulger Buel demonstrating the wartime
Swiss version of the Enigma K, and interviews with Dr. Rudolf Ritter and
Walter Schmid (Crypto AG). John Alexander demonstrates our
Fialka machine, whilst Paul Reuvers
shows the coding wheels of the recently discovered
Zählwerk Enigma.
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Dominik Landwehr published his Book Mythos Enigma in 2008 as his
PhD Thesis at the University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities.
As of 10 November 2010, this book can also be downloaded as a
PDF file (15MB). The book is written in the German language.
Click the link below if you want to download the book.
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