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The structure of the German high command also encouraged infighting and squabbling for resources between the Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe and SS



Famously, "Germany" had cracked literally all the ciphers the Allied armies were using, but each was cracked by one outfit that would not talk to any other. The Postal Service had cracked one of them, e.g., but nobody in the army wanted to hear anything from the post office.




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