Why did they use the enigma machine in world war 2?

Answer 1

Arthur Scherbius invented the Enigma machine, filing his first patent in 1918. Its original intended use was for secure business communication.

In the late 1920s the German military ordered two differently modified versions of Enigma machines for the Navy and Army that were intended to be more secure than the standard commercial Enigma machines.

Answer 2

It was a machine the Germans used to create a code they though was unbreakable.

The Enigma Machine was originally used by the German High Command to transmit communications to its forces in the front line. The code breakers of Bletchley Park (UK) then cracked the code and used their machine to intercept these messages

Answer 3

the enigma code was created to secretly transmit mesages through radio if you want to know more watch the movie The Imitation Game good movie and shows how britan craked enigma

Answer 4

the enigma code was hard to crack because the Germans would change the code everyday.