Rare machine Enigma used by Nazi Germany during the Second world war, was sold at auction Tuesday for 45 thousand euros. The collector who put the car on sale in the auction house Artmark in Bucharest, Romania, found it at a flea market in town and bought it for only 100 euros.

Vital to the Nazi war effort machine Enigma used by the German military to encrypt messages, which they regarded as inviolable. But the code has been broken by the crypto team at Bletchley Park in the South of England - breaking shortened the war, at least for 2 years.

Tool sold on Tuesday, an unnamed online party - was made in Germany in 1941 and is in almost perfect condition, said Vlad Cordico, Manager of public relations at Artmark. "It belonged to mathematics, who spent most of his life, deciphering codes," he said.

According to Cordico, the previous owner just didn't realize the value of the subject - he thought it was just an ordinary typewriter.

Memorabilia of the Second world war continue to attract bidders. Earlier this year, the telephone of Adolf Hitler were sold in the US for $243 thousand and a watch belonging to Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the war, at auction in London received $162 thousand ($208,000), which is 6 times more than the estimate.
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