I chose my topic because my dad showed me about it before I started on my History Day. I knew a little about the Enigma before, but not as much as I do now. I knew that it would be a good topic for this year’s theme, Communications in History, because I knew that it was a coding device that the Nazis used during World War 2. It also is a topic that I know that I can have some fun writing about.

I conducted my research by first looking up a couple of websites about the Enigma Machine, and put some facts that I found on the website, on a Google Doc. After I got enough information, I separated my secondary sources from my primary sources. Then after I did that, I transfered all of the information onto my website. I also looked up pictures I could use for my website and I transferred those onto the website as well.

I chose to do a website because I wanted to try something different. I did an exhibit last year, and I wanted to try something new. I also wanted to learn how to make a website and how everything works to make a website. I felt like it would be a fun challenge for me. My dad knows a lot about making websites, and he helped me out a little bit, but I did all of the work for the most part.

The Enigma Machine relates to the topic of Communication in History because the Nazis used it to communicate with each other during the second World War. It was a coding machine that was made by a German man named Arthur Scherbius, that would scramble up the alphabet and make random letters that only the Nazis could read. They used it for the majority of the war, until an English man named Alan Turing cracked the German code in 1943.

My historical argument is that more people should know about the Enigma Machine. Not many people know about it and people should because it is a fascinating topic. It is about a coding device that a man named Arthur Scherbius designed and it seemed impossible to crack the code, but then an English mathematician found a way to crack the code somehow. But still after Alan Turing did the impossible, not many people know about the story of the Enigma Machine.