Comment by damnesian
7 hours ago
I'm surprised "Bitte" --> "btte" was a hurdle. "Bitte," or "please," is ubiquitous in German. The more common the term, them more likely you'd be to see some contractions. Dropping the "i" is pretty logical- anyone looking at it would see immediately what it meant.
To be clear, the text in the comment is the plaintext, not the ciphertext. The plaintext is what's full of typos.
The ciphertext of message Nr 172 was:
MVUEH IDEVS ARMCC NQTAT YEVFC DBZGG SMXWL PSYWZ YTCBS WURRT BZCVG ODVJU SLSOO MJQJZ SXSEB ZPEYM DNXJF TC
https://cryptocellar.org/bgac/g-army-july-1941.html