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WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until long after the war

PickledAardvark

Standard German and Dialects?

I'm presuming that formal official messages would have been composed in Standard German (or the equivalent of the time) with the stilted jargon which permeates organisations. Would there have been other messages -- banter between operators -- in dialect or vernacular German?

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