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Originally Posted by Dennis Peschier
Hello Nick,
Morten Jessen suggested that these units send their messages by telex cables, and were therefore not picked up by ULTRA. I have not looked at 1944, but in March 1945 more western Europe radio traffic is decoded by ULTRA. I assume that the infrastructure was breaking down and they had to resort to radio for sending their messages.
Dennis
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It is noticeable in the DEFE3 files (the Ultra material first made public, long before HW5) that the bulk of Luftwaffe traffic in the February-June 1944 period is from Italy, Greece & Yugoslavia. As soon as the Allies land in France, the traffic from there dominates the files. As the situation in Italy stabilises in late summer, traffic falls away to almost nothing even from the few Luftwaffe units that were still there.
15th October 2006, 19:10
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