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  2. Zimmermann telegram - Wikipedia

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    Zimmermann's office sent the telegram to the German embassy in the United States for retransmission to Von Eckardt in Mexico. It has traditionally been understood that the telegram was sent over three routes. It went by radio, and passed via telegraph cable inside messages sent by diplomats of two neutral countries (the United States and Sweden).

  3. World War I cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The ADFGX and ADFGVX field ciphers were a modified polybius system with single order double columnar transposition and frequent key change, with letters optimized for Morse. It was later broken by the famous French cryptanalyst Georges Painvin. The breaking of the ADFGX cipher by Painvin was the second time during the war that cryptanalysis ...

  4. Willy–Nicky correspondence - Wikipedia

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    The Willy-Nicky letters consist of 75 messages Wilhelm sent to Nicholas between 8 November 1894 (Letter I) and 26 March 1914 (Letter LXXV). The majority were sent from Berlin or the Neues Palais in Potsdam, and others from places as diverse as Rominten, Coburg, Letzlingen, Wilhelmshöhe, Kiel, Posen, Pillau, Gaeta, Corfu (where Wilhelm had a summer retreat), Stamboul, and Damascus.

  5. Mother's boxes held letters home from U.S. Navy seaman on ...

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    A half-dozen letters home from war, written by Savannahian Jack O'Donnell, survive among writer's mother's keepsakes.

  6. French letters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy are opened ...

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    The notes, written in 1757-8, were intended for the crew of French warship the Galatee and sent by wives, fiances, parents and siblings. French letters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy are ...

  7. Postal censorship - Wikipedia

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    Part of message obliterated by indelible pencil. Postal censorship is the inspection or examination of mail, most often by governments.It can include opening, reading and total or selective obliteration of letters and their contents, as well as covers, postcards, parcels and other postal packets.

  8. Letters from war: WWII sailor's missives home told different ...

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    Jana, now 60, has spent the past two years transcribing her father's journal, photo albums, and more than 300 letters sent home during his tours of duty abroad. There's great value in what Jana ...

  9. History of the British Army postal service - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy A, Crabb G: The Postal History of the British Army in World War 1 – Before and after 1903 to 1929 (George Crabb, Epsom, 1977). Messenger C: Terriers in the Trenches – The History of the Post Office Rifles (Picton, Bristol, 1982). Proud EB ed: History of British Army Postal Service Vol I 1882–1903 (Proud-Bailey, Heathfield, 1982).