Desalination of code machine – which divers thought was ‘old typewriter’ – to take 12 months

German divers who fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea have handed their rare find over to a museum for restoration.

The code machine – which was used by the Nazis to send coded messages during the second world war – was discovered last month by divers on assignment for the environmental group WWF. The group was searching for abandoned fishing nets in the Bay of Gelting off the north-east coast of Germany.

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