TABLE OF CONTENTS [Editor's Note: We reprint what may be the first Enigma sales brochure produced around the mid-1920s to encourage all businesses to "keep their correspondence absolutely secret" by using Enigma. The cover reads, Chiffriermaschinen, Aktiengeseelschaft, Berlin W 35, Steglitzer Str. 2. Fernspr.: Nollendorf 2899, Tel. Adr.: Chiffrier Berlin. Measuring 20.8 cm wide by 14.5 cm high with elegantly framed text on 16 pages, this pamphlet promoted the Enigma while "educating" the reader into a need for such a device in commerce. The original brochure is from the collection of Louis Kruh, one of Cryptologia's founding editors. Slight grammatical corrections have been made.]
It is a well-known fact that, now and forever, for purposes of both war and peace, politicians and military men, industrial producers and commercial houses are compelled to keep their correspondence secret. This is a point increasing in importance from day to day. Decisive battles have been lost, by land and by water, in the air and in debating with each other, because the adversary had a better method of keeping his correspondence secret, or a good apparatus being capable of considerably quickening the speed, and multiplying the number of information sent and received. Hand-writing systems will prove insufficient in times of great excitement and hurried proceedings.
If you have no good coding system, you are always running a considerable risk. Transmitted by cable or without wire, your correspondence will always be exposed to every spy, your...
