Who will solve this encrypted message from World War II?

A coded text from the Second World War has turned up on the British island of Guernsey. Can a reader decipher it?

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A few months ago I blogged about unresolved encrypted messages from World War II. In a total of three articles, I presented all cryptograms of this type that I know of. Thanks to the help of my readers, I was able to cross several messages off my list and include some new ones.

Thanks to blog reader Magnus Ekhall …

Quelle/Source: Ekhall

… who drew my attention to a FaceBook post by Martin Gillow, I can now expand my list of unsolved cryptograms from World War II.

A late love and an encrypted text

Before that, however, I’d like to discuss another crypto find from the UK. In 2013, the Daily Mail reported on a ninety-year-old who sent an encrypted message to an 81-year-old he had met 60 years earlier and to whom he had sent crypto messages even then. In fact, after their new encounter, the two got married at an advanced age.

The following picture shows the message the ninety-year-old sent to his beloved:

Quelle/Source: Daily Mail

Can a reader solve this cryptogram? If there is anything too private in it, I will delete the plaintext from the comments.

The Guensey cryptogram

But back to the encrypted text from World War II. The FaceBook post in question refers to an article in the British newspaper Guernsey Press, which is published on the English Channel island of Guernsey. This tells of a couple living there who, while renovating their home, came across an old box containing some items from World War II. In addition one should know that Guernsey was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War. So you should find more German World War II material there than British.

Among the material in the box was the following note, which apparently contains a coded message:

Quelle/Source: Guernsey Press

It is not clear to me what this note is about. One can make out mostly groups of (mostly five) lowercase letters. Can a reader tell if this is more of a British or a German handwriting?

To me, these groups of letters remind me of Enigma encoded messages as noted by radio operators. Apparently, they were taught during their training to use only lower case letters and to write them down in a fixed way. This was to avoid reading errors. The following scan shows an example:

Quelle/Source: Hörenberg

The German soldiers on Guernsey of course also used the Enigma. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that we are dealing with an Enigma message.

Can a reader say more about the encrypted message from Guernsey?

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Further reading: Encrypted notes created by a German WW2 soldier

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