How these Heroic Polish Codebreakers set the Foundations for the Allies to Crack Engima
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- When the British brainiacs got to work on Enigma, they weren't starting from scratch. They were building on a foundation laid years before, by the often-forgotten codebreakers of Poland. This is their story.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:53 First Polish-Soviet War
2:22 Enigma found itself in Poland
3:32 Polish Cryptologists
5:38 The French Spy
8:03 Codebreaking Developments
9:02 Gifting the British
9:56 Legacy of the Polish Codebreakers
10:44 Conclusion
I'm glad you're shedding light on an important event in history, many people seem to forget about the Polish Codebreakers. Thank you for covering this.
Our pleasure!
The poles did much more than they get credit for. They should be remembered.
I'll make a museum once I take over the country again.
We want to make sure that all people get the recognition that they deserve!
And be given pittances too, especially from the Russians.
@@TheFront Can you make vid on Polish spy claiming planns of Atlantic wall or Polish partisans stealing and sending v missile back to Britian?
ABSOLUTELY!! I am 66 years-old and had no clue that the Poles won the war for the allies. Squadron 302 and 303 also made a great contribution toward victory by Britain in the Battle of Britain.
The more I listen to thing about the Polish through World War 2 - the more in awe I am of these people. Their determination, tenacity and resistance to oppression is incredible.
It's in the blood. We where always stuck between 2 great powers, invaded from time to time, from left and right. When that happens You develop stubbornes to whoever comes at You. I'm speaking as great grandson of cavalry partisan.
Salute to the Polish mathematicians who kept the secret to their graves. Brave and brainy.
FINNALY someone mentions them, everyone else is always talking only about Alan Turing like they didnt exist, thank you
It's weird. You search youtube for "enigma bomba polska" or anything like it and there's not a lot of (high quality) videos on the topic. Luckily this video was exactly what i was looking for, a very clear, very well presented summary of what they had achieved.
I'm from Germany. My father even was a soldier in the Wehrmacht back then. But obviously I'm just super impressed by what the polish accomplished and how little credit these brave people get. Though it's not like turing had an awesome life either. He made big contributions to the war effort against the nazis as well and as thanks they treated him like a degenerate for being gay until he took his life at 41.
This was made for securing the family of the genius polish mathematicians
Thanks for this enlightening video of the crucial role that Polish mathematicians and code-breakers made to the English decoding the Enigma machine generated messages. I feel that the vital role the Poles had in defeating the Nazis is often underestimated. This is just another example of that. Well done, Poles!
Thank you ❤
Thank you for bringing this topic up. No one ever mentions how the Polish were vital to the code breaking effort. I have so much respect for the Polish men and women. They pretty much took the brunt of the attack during WW2. They were so bad ass that they didn’t surrender, just relocated to England to continue the fight. A lot of them joined the RAF and were some of the most determined pilots when going against the Luftwaffe. Even after the war they still had to deal with oppression from the Soviets until their dissolution in the early 90s finally gaining independence.
Good for you doing this. People think it was all Turing's work. He couldn't have got started without these incredibly heroic Poles (and also the telephone engineer Tommy Flowers!)
Turing wouldn't be even invited if not for the Poles. Prior to that the Brits had never thought of asking a mathematician for help.
I knew that the Poles were basically the first to break the Enigma code as i live in Bydgoszcz, a city which Marian Rejewski was born in. The monument of him sitting next to an Enigma is in Bydgoszcz as well. He was truly a genius who changed the course of history, unfortunately he is often forgotten. All the people that worked on this project, from Poland, France or Great Britain are heroes and deserve recognition.
THANK YOU, Poland, for helping to rid the world of Nazism.
Heroes indeed
The Poles was a real badass
That first intercepted Enigma was copied over a weekend. The Germans were told to come back Monday when the supervisor that could authorize the release would be back in the office.
Cool.
Finally somebody actually acknowledges the Poles when it comes to the Enigma
Idiots got lucky
@@georgeboehringer5530Your parents got unlucky
And how were they remembered by the allies? Ah right,40 years of iron curtain..
It began before the Iron Curtain. Poland, despite its huge involvement on most fronts, was not represented in the 1946 Allied Victory Parade in London, not to upset Uncle Joe, the lucky one of two genocidic monsters of WW2...
The Russians were one of the Allies.
We have been sidelined so much. Thank you for remembering us 🇵🇱
Absolutely the best info on enigma ever. Well done!!
That is really flattering! Especially considering how much content there is out there on Enigma!
imo without Poland and their efforts the war would’ve been way longer and harder
Poland kicked arse in the air, on land, at sea, and underground. 💪🇵🇱
Not just an opinion but a fact. Poland had the 4th largest army on the allied side throughout the war.
I mean without poland ww2 wouldnt have started....
@@aaroncousins4750 because Poland was the first to fight back instead of rolling over like other nations
@@56Tyskie Their anthem is literally, "Poland Is Not Yet Lost"
It's terrible that Poland was essentially left to the wolves. They contributed so much and fought so adamantly.
Poland's good at codecracking because the language is like a cypher to begin with xD
Ha ha no, because they good at maths and intelligent :-)
“What’s in the package!?”
“IT’S PIKACHU!”
“It’s Commercial Enigma Machine!”
“F#@K!”
Lol
...So, what was in that suitcase in Pulp Fiction?
The Warsaw palace where the Enigma code was broken was demolished after the Warsaw Uprising. The polish government had announced the reconstruction of the palace as of 2021.
From my understanding, it was blown up by the Germany military during the war, not so much as demolished!
They better not muck up the building with political BS, though, especially when it comes to the suspected Holocaust denials.
@@michaelandreipalon359 you are suspected of ignorance full of media bs
@@michaelandreipalon359 every child in polish school learns about holocaust in history, literature, ethics, geography AND culture lessons. trips to auchwitz in some schools are MANDATORY. If anything we low key hated holocaust for being mentioned over and over and over and over every fucking year all the time and that has not changed. Poland has many issues and problems and our government does a lot of fucked up shit but holocaust denial is not one of them. They are too proud of the polish military and clergy involvement in dismantling it to ever deny it.
Stop believing whatever you hear on opinion nights in CNN
@@TheFront Rapid exothermic deconstruction is still deconstruction :P
finally a true story and its in English? wow just arrived from other sites where all English speaking people
arguing about how its code was broken and so on but nothing about polish story , once again BIG thank YOU.
Thank you Poland.
Absolutely wonderful! I wish the movie “The Imitation Game” had given the Polish Codebreakers the credit they deserve. It does not diminish Turing to rightly give credit where it was deserved and bought with Polish blood. The “Imitation Game” framed it as though Turing invented The Bomba and to me this is a form of stolen valor and akin to plagiarism but worse because few people know that the “based on a true story” of Hollywood movies is really an excuse for lying under the guise of “artistic license” and it perpetuates lies generations later rarely checked and corrected. Just another reminder to never trust Hollywood movies.
Never trust an Englishman with history.
Thank you for these words of truth, this does not often happen in relation to Poland
Polish mathematicians, using the theory of permutation groups, described the Enigma encryption process by system of equations. This made it possible to reconstruct the internal connections in the cipher drums and build faithful copies of the enigma only on the basis of the encrypted and decrypted messages.
Fun fact: look at the photo at 4:08. These are officers from the Polish Cypher Burreau. Except that the man sitting in the centre is not in Polish uniform, and he does not look Polish. Because he isn't. He is Capt. Masataka Yamawaki, the Japanese military attache to Poland, who started a fruitful collaboration between Japanese and Polish cryptographers directed against USSR. Long story short: the Poles taught the Japanese the basics of modern cryptography.
Another forgotten event which people didn’t know about, great video please make more like this!
Thank you for this video. My parents taught me this when I was 5 years old which is 29 years ago
Let’s go polish geniuses
Finally a video addressing the true code breakers
The first that is. The British did do some wonderful things breaking advanced enigma codes using the first digital computers created in large part by Allen Turing, but you are right mostly. The Poles were the first and the British owed a lot to them.
@@arrow1414 the code breaking is the least they owe us for, we spent the war defending the isles and at the end they discarded us like trash, they also made us pay to use their equipment
@@MyMika2004 Churchill did not want to leave the Poles under the Soviets, he had to do what Roosevelt wanted, who thought he could handle "Uncle Joe"
@@MyMika2004 gave you 400k citizenships, the largest amount in world history for any country… and you think they should’ve instead invaded the USSR lmaooo
@@XXXTENTAClON227 seethe commie
For me, apart from breaking the code itself, the most important thing was always keeping secret, even under torture, the information about the ineffectiveness of the German encryption system. We can imagine that someone, in order to avoid suffering or death, informs the Germans that their encryption method has failed. Then the greatest intelligence achievement of the Western Allies fighting against the Germans would be lost forever. Apart from your video, nowhere else have I seen recognition of this enormous dedication to preserving such a valuable source of information. And it would be enough for only one initiated person to break under torture and provide the Germans with information about breaking the code of their coding machine. The Allied countries would be left blind and deaf. This is a huge contribution to the victory of democracy.
Wonderful video. Thank goodness for these brilliant people.
"Because we do not beg for Freedom. We fight for it!" - Witold Urbanowicz of 303 Kosciuszko Squadron
Your knowledge is beyond awesome. I am truelly impressed and greatfull for you making these vids. Ps: Although there are some vids allready, I would love your version/thoughts/vid about Polish Thermopyle, the Battle at Wizna 7-10.09.1939.
Big kudos and thanx!
The uniqueness of the device lay in both the concept of mechanical cipher-breaking and the exceptional mathematical ideas. that Polish cryptanalysts employed to crack the supposedly unbreakable encryption mechanism. Award: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Milestone:First Breaking of Enigma Code by the Team of Polish Cipher Bureau, 1932-1939
Hey thanks for all the regular interesting videos.
Glad you like them!
Viva Poland!!
Three cheers for you, for recognizing the massive, war-winning contributions of the Poles to cracking the now famous Enigma code, years before the Brits got their mitts on it. As reported, the British intelligence leaders were astounded by the groundbreaking work of the Polish mathematicians prior to WWIl.
Wow what a great history lesson detailing the Polish contribution for our free world. Poland kept their culture despite being invaded and dominated many times by others. Poland deserves much more recognition than it has received. They stood up for themselves the best they could and finally they are free.
The polish contribution to the defeat of the nazis was about 0.01% and zero against the japs.
Thankyou Poland.
I am making an essay about the Enigma and i could not find information about the Polish bombe anywhere. Thank you for telling me about it, cause i just could have not got an 100/100 for my essay without this video. Thank you 😄. The video was also very interresting, so thanks!
These silent heroes of the past should be known and revered in the present.
In the movie starring Benedic Cumberbatch, a eureka moment happened when mention was made of the different styles of typing by the different German morse code operators. It was so blatant to the UK codebreakers. "Ah, Hans is today's transmitter. He's been away for a while."
Incredible.
There is a story about some morse (‽) code operater on a sub that committed some major infraction like trasmitting something in the clear. And so, in an attempt to hide him, he was forced to send all subsequent messages w his left hand.
What the movie 'The Imitation Game' and this video fails to mention is that whilst the Poles were the first to crack Enigma, there were several incidents that enabled Bletchley to continue to break the code. The Kriegsmarine code was the most important as it told the Allies where the U-Boats were. Unfortunately the Kriegsmarine were also changing their machines more often to prevent disclosures. Enigma machines were captured by the Royal Navy more than once when they sank U-Boats and this enabled Bletchley to have a helping hand to see how the machines had been altered. The Americans also had a big hand in unlocking the code as Britain built only a few Bombe machines and these were operating round the clock, but the Americans built over 150 and Britain was sending the Americans the intercepts down the Atlantic cables, so the Americans could use their Bombe to crack the codes and then send the results back to Bletchley. Turing and the other codebrealers spent most of their time trying to discover how the Germans were upgrading the machines so they could devise new ways of cracking them.
Thank you for telling the truth. God bless!
Hey @TheFront thanks for another interesting video, cracking a code like the Enigma must have been incredibly difficult and overwhelming ' I'm glad to see these men get the credit they deserve and I'm not surprised that the Germans did it in Alphabetical order as the in battle were very organised so they would be here too.
Thank you for your work, it's very important. Especially now.
Nicely informative video. Glad to know more about what these people did prior to WWII starting in Europe.
Great video. Most people think it started with the brits.
It definitely was not a one-country job!
I’m pleased to say all the British histories I have read acknowledge the groundbreaking work of the Poles. The “bombe “ and the handing over of an Enigma machine and associated documents are well known. The French input and the German agent is new to me though. Also, not in the least bit surprised that The Polish decryption team wouldn’t talk!
Learning point: great minds from many countries working together can save the world.
Excellent video and compelling account. As you’ve correctly indicated, this technology transfer by the Poles shortened the war and saved thousands of lives.
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A lot here I did not know. Thankyou.
Yet another story of the not truly defeated ever Polish
The memes throughout this episode made me laugh so damn hard. Well done!
Thank you excellent video
About time the Polish got recognition for breaking the Enigma code
As a PROUDLY Polish man - big thanks for the AMERICANS and CANADIAN counterparts! :)
For the fight against our allies, Great Britain was billed and taken from the gold and silver stored in English banks, for planes, weapons, food, etc. And finally agreed to hand us over to the soviet union, so we came out miraculously with our allies, russia took our reparations from Germany and it was Russia that oppressed us until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Kings, absolutely based Poles and it's tragic they met such a horrible end
Hey just watched the video about the enigma and Lorenz machine
Great video
Always a joy seeing your comments!
5:38, If this video had been sponsored, you could've used the line as a transition.
Beautifully put together, great job mate! That thing about Germans and alphabetical order cracked me up xD
Thks 4 info
l think never and that is a very....Scary thing.....Thanks awesome video my friend.....!
The best TV programme on the subject is the 1977 BBC programme The Secret War, episode 6: Still Secret. The contribution of BS4 is described and the three of them, Rejewski, Rozycki and Zygalski named. Zygalski gets described as the plodder; patiently trying again and again.
I have it on VHS, purchased at Bletchley and the episode may be available on YT in those regions beyond the reach of the BBC's lawyers.
Very informative. Steals a bit of thunder from Bletchley Park.
I'm a Polish from Poznań I live in England and I spotted lots off English people still believe the Alan Turning is the only person who created the enigma code .
I don't know?
it is aware deliberate disregard or ignorance .
Thanks for this documentry🇵🇱💪👏👏
That is because the English don't let facts get in the way of writing their own history. Everyone on earth thinks that Waterloo was a British victory, but only 20 % of the soldiers were British. The Propaganda began just after the battle when Wellington insisted that the battlefield be called by the English sounding name 'Waterloo'. I think Churchhill described this English habit the best: 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it'.
Similar to 303 squadron, I remember 35 years ago a truck painted with 303 pieces and claiming 141 kills, down from the original 200+ during the battle, then reduced to 126, now thought to be 58.8, of which 38.8 kills were by poles.
Ignorance is indeed bliss for some.
@@ejmproductions8198 The battle was named after the Belgian village of Waterloo where it took place and out of 68,000 soldiers 38% were British
I think it is just ignorance. I knew about it decades ago but I'm interested in such things. I'm sure if you ask Poles about the British contribution (Turing etc) they won't know much about it either and just assume the Poles did all the work.
Man in the thumbnail looks like grown up Harry Potter.
James Potter!
@@TheFront Yes! Next episode will be on the Wizarding wars lmao
Angry Britans will still say that they cracked Enigma.
The Polish cracked the 3 reel machine, the British cracked the 12 reel machine which had if I recall 158 quintillion possible combinations. To do this the British created what many consider to be the first digital computer.
Both made important contributions.
The Polish potentially cut years off the British breaking Enigma. But the British took what they got and bettered it by taking code breaking to a truly industrial scale. They also then broke the holy grail of the day the German Lorenz cypher. A fact that wasn't declassified until 20 years ago.
And then Joe Desch and others at NCR in Dayton Ohio took it to a truly EPIC speed and scale -- including handling the 4-rotor Naval Enigma in a crucial phase later in the war that was causing the Brits huge headaches.
Marian Rejewskin is the guy you're looking for.
10:54: Not surprised. Every code cipher has a pattern. Heck, even our passwords have connections with our own personalities, lives, and favorites.
No.
Very long, if not downright impossible to find out all of it... wonder what happened to that greedy traitor though?
...In basic terms, the Allies deservedly won WW2 (shame the Reds also won), Poland is currently free despite some problematic situations involving the Russians and the Holocaust, Nazism is now an outlawed form of belief system, even though neo-remnants still lurk around in the open, Communism is still around, but is a bit fragile in case things turn south against it (especially with media portrayals), and, of course, this video and many other sources praising not only the rest of "Ultra", but also these lesser know heroes of the world as we know it, and this is just my basic rundown of how much things have changed because of this confounding codework.
No; I'm not surprised that the Germans wired their Enigma machine in alphabetical order. They also helped to give the game away when operators began messages with standard greetings, and ended them with "Heil Hitler". German punctuality also hurt their efforts when they made regular raids on a certain area. Defensive forces would know when to be ready for them.
Notifications squad is here
Rise up!
Its my understanding that the first Enigma code was broken at the A.V.A. Radio Co. In Warsaw.
4:43: And a whole lot of other languages... see, I made eight in English.
Honestly it is about time that Turing is credited with breaking the code. It was a multi-year multi- national gring. Turing was just one person who made a contribution
Sorry, overcredited
yes, absolutely it was a multiple contribution. But what you can't "over-credit" Turing for is the whole new level of decoding, on an industrial scale level with the development of his machine and his contribution to computation theory/ai/modern computer science.
@@gooner_duke2756 but also if not poles he probabbly would achieve nothing, so yea
@@potato8606 but without Turing, it would be inviduals sat at their desks trying to decipher the code ! Can you imagine !? Turing's contribution was huge. Yes, the work already done by the Polish mathematicians obviously cut a lot of time out and layed the foundations. Like I said it was a multiple contribution. But you cannot underestimate Turing's achievement either.
@@gooner_duke2756 I didnt say that he did nothing, i just meant that people always talk about Turing and forget about polish contrivution
That machine was commercially available til the following year of its arrival in Warsaw
Wonder what geetslys up to currently
Proud polish
Great men.
Bruh, they didn't "set the foundations", they broke the enigma, Touring wasn't as much breaking Enigma as developing a way to do it quicker as germans adding complexity while still operating under the same rule meant available method would take too long to be viable.
Hollywood will never make movie film about a POLISH #WW2 Hero like Sendlerowa, Rejewski or Pilecki. How do you think? Why?
It's got a lot of white heterosexual men and women bro.
The toilet cleaners of England did it again
What!!!!!! And I thought the yanks broke the code after capturing an enigma machine, I've seen the film and everything.
Yankees literally did nothing to break the enigma. What film did you watch if i may ask?
Only truth can set us free - thanks
Germans had a hard time making engima code that got broken anyway. Because Poles need to learn a language that is much harder than that lmao
great , but why cant in space ?
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Let's not forget that half a century later Poles also did something no Western armies could have
done - in 1989 they single-handedly strangled Soviet communism...
if I recall from those days there many nations protesting and undermining the ussr. The hungarians for example opened the border into austria.
@@jonathanjonathan7386 Yes, but only one nation - Poland, created a viable non-communist government under Lech Walesa's Solidarity. The rest just followed like sheep...
"And for all their bravery and all their sacrifice, the "Allies" would sell Poland and it's people to the communists for 30 pieces of silver. May God forgive us." -- MR
Enigma Poland 1932. You Tube.
Heroic ??? Dodging bullets were they ? Oh hell. I never noticed all those sevens before . Good job avoiding those sevens guys
Are you Australian? If so, what area are you from?
Using secrecy as an excuse, the British intelligence claimed they broke the code, while in reality they were given a ready solution by the Poles. This wasn`t the first or last way Britan screwed Poland over during WWII.
they didnt claim that at all, it was kept top secret until the 1970s
Ok
Can't Touch Hans.
Hi
Bout fucking time this got mentioned bc history teachers today get it wrong poland is and will always be first
Ah, the Germans. Reminds me of my Death Corps of Krieg, tough guys, good machines...love those dudes!