After the German Army fully adopted the Enigma, they gained a great advantage, as the Allies themselves did not know about the existence of this machine. The Army heavily depended on the belief that the Enigma codes were unbreakable, and with the limited amount of information and technology that the Allies had at the time, it was possible that they were not far from the truth. The reason the Allies were able to be made aware of even the existence of the Enigma was due to slips made by the Germans themselves. The Poles were the first ones to break the code, after getting their hands on an Enigma device. They were able to fully re-engineer the machine to understand how it works. After doing so, they were able to construct the first- ever computing
