- The UK spy agency GCHQ has released the last messages sent on the Nazi military communication network to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe.
- “Closing down for ever – all the best – goodbye,” reads the final message.
- Another communication sent a few days before the end of the war tells soldiers on the Danish coast that Control doesn’t have any spare cigarettes left.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe, Britain’s spy agency GCHQ on Friday released the very last messages sent on the Nazi military communications network.
The communications were intercepted at Britain’s code-cracking base in Bletchley Park, and belonged to Germany’s military communications network BROWN.
“In the dying days of the war the network’s Control retreated to the German town of Cuxhaven. As the Allies closed in, the last of the German messengers still at his post, Lieutenant Kunkel sent the last recorded message from the network,” GCHQ said in a statement.
The final message from Lt. Kunkel reads as follows:
“British troops entered Cuxhaven at 1400 on 6 May – from now on all radio traffic will cease – wishing you all the best. Lt Kunkel.”
“Closing down for ever – all the best – goodbye.”
Read the article by Isobel Asher Hamilton in Business Insider Australia.