Dieppe Raid Analysis

Dieppe is one of the most controversial raids that occurred in the second World War. What seems at face value to be an attempt to create a second front for the Allied forces may have a bigger back story than previously thought. Before watching this documentary I had little to no knowledge of this raid. In talking to other people about this assignment I was actually surprised as well that it doesn’t seem to be a well-remembered battle. I knew that the Dieppe raid had occurred but I did not know anything about its objective, the way that it turned out, or the part that the Canadian forces played. The knowledge I had, before watching this documentary, was mainly surrounding the actions of Britain and Germany in the second World War. It seems that often, outside of

This documentary broadened my mind to the involvement of Canadian forces in the second World War and expanded on the little knowledge I had previously.

Dieppe, otherwise known as Operation Jubilee, was portrayed widely as a movement to create a second front in Europe against the Axis forces. The raid was meant to seize the port of Dieppe for six hours by attacking in the pre-dawn darkness in a coordinated, several front attack. The surprising truth about this raid, as brought to light by David O’Keefe, was that it was a pinch raid. The true goal of the attack was to steal ciphers and enigma machines to break German code. At this point in the war Bletchley Park had hit a roadblock on the enigma machine. The enigma machine used rotors to further encrypt the code that Germans were creating. British intelligence had broken the three rotor code at the same time that the Germans made a move to a four rotor enigma machine. Due to this, the Allied forces were going into naval battles blind and the German forces were gaining an upper hand. There was no progress