Hans-Thilo Schmidt
✓ Source-basedfallingGerman cryptographer (1888-1943)
Lived 1888 to 1943 · aged 55
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Hans-Thilo Schmidt codenamed Asché or Source D, was a German spy who sold secrets about the Enigma machine to the French during World War II.
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![Rodolphe Lemoine [fr], born Rudolf Stallmann (1871-1946), served as his French point of contact as "Rex".](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/RodolpheLemoine.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
About this person
Hans-Thilo Schmidt codenamed Asché or Source D, was a German spy who sold secrets about the Enigma machine to the French during World War II. The materials he provided facilitated Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski's reconstruction of the wiring in the Enigma's rotors and reflector; thereafter the Poles were able to read a large proportion of Enigma-enciphered traffic. He was the younger brother of Wehrmacht general Rudolf Schmidt.
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Lived 1888 to 1943 · aged 55
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