A German Enigma machine from 1939 has sold for $48,324 in Auction Team Breker's April 18 sale in Cologne, Germany.
It was manufactured by Chiffriermaschinen-Ges. Heimsoeth und Rinke for the Swiss army.
 The Enigma machine is a model K, which were manufactured for the Swiss military |
While the Engima machine is best known as an encoding tool of the Nazis, it was invented several years before the second world war and exported around the world.
A notebook belonging to Alan Turing, who was instrumental in cracking Enigma's code, made $1m.
Please sign up to our free newsletter to receive exciting news about medals and militaria auctions.
