# Were the German codes broken by the Enigma machine coherent German? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 3, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-the-german-codes-broken-by-the-enigma-machine-coherent-german/1025367 "2025-12-03T14:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 125
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-the-german-codes-broken-by-the-enigma-machine-coherent-german/1025367/125 "2025-12-08T16:51:05Z")
> [@Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3072): > > During WWII, Germany was seeking information about rumors that Churchill and Roosevelt were planning on meeting. They obtained a snippet of information that the meeting place was Casablanca. But a translator who was translating the information into German somehow assumed this was the Spanish words casa blanca rather than a reference to the city in Morocco. So he had the report saying they were meeting at the White House. Follow the replies, there is a whole chain of them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-the-german-codes-broken-by-the-enigma-machine-coherent-german/1025367)._