Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram

Just over one hundred years ago, the British carried out one of the most audacious acts in the history of codebreaking. So audacious, in fact, that they had to convince the Americans they hadn’t done it at all…

Entertaining and fascinating read on the circumstances surrounding the British code breaking efforts with regards to the Zimmermann telegram.

Link: Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram – Lapsed Historian

Photo Credit: ChatGPT 5.2 – “I’m attaching a copy of the Zimmermann telegram. Composite this image into an 1880x984px image that I’ll use as the feature image on a blog post. This blog post is linking to a story about the circumstances surrounding the Zimmermann telegram. So, for the image you create, make it look like an authentic historical photo with the telegram within the scene. The photo should look like something from 1917 or thereabouts. Have the telegram sitting on a desk in the foreground with British intelligence discussing it with a US embassy official. Do not include any text overlays on the photo, we are just going for something that looks like an authentic photo from the period.”