Rommel
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Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:01 am |
 
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Ok, the Zimmermann Telegram occurred during WWI but it's interesting, and it did underscore the need for code breaking in warfare; which played a vital role in WW2... both with the German enigma and Japanese JN–25 codes.. But that's another story.. 
In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This message helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the course of history
hmmm, this doesn't look suspicious... lol
and the translated version
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