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  • Was the work of code-breakers at Bletchley Park perhaps history's most crucial piece of espionage? Discover what really happened as part of this once top-secret operation to decode the Nazi's enigma machine.
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  • @alancooper9632
    @alancooper9632 2 месяца назад +10

    Absolutely fascinating from start to finish, This should be shown in the school's today to show what a brilliant country Britain is instead of putting this great country down.

  • @breemckittrick9739
    @breemckittrick9739 8 месяцев назад +27

    Thank you, Daddy, for your service on the USS Randolf, still going at 96 yrs old ❤

    • @shaggydogfarms
      @shaggydogfarms 5 месяцев назад

      Thank him and hug him❤

    • @DeirdreCatherineDoyle
      @DeirdreCatherineDoyle 2 месяца назад

      HOW LOVELY, GOOD ON YOUR DAD AND YOU ALSO. I GO INTO AN INTERIOR 'HISSY' FIT WHEN RETURN TO UK WHEN SHOPPING AND WHEN THEY CANNOT DO 2 MINIUTES SILENCE FOR ALL OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN. POPPIES ON MY FRESCO OUTSIDE AND I LIKE WHEN THE ITALIANS ASK WHY THIS FLOWER?

    • @nicola4894
      @nicola4894 Месяц назад

  • @sherylwilson6859
    @sherylwilson6859 11 месяцев назад +36

    Bletchley is a brilliant place to visit. Loved it all.
    Amazing what they achieved

  • @evanhammond7305
    @evanhammond7305 Месяц назад +3

    BRITTIAN NEVER STOOD ALONE. Canadians and Australians fought since day one.

  • @andrzejpopowski7745
    @andrzejpopowski7745 26 дней назад +2

    In fact, Alan Turing didn't reveal of any internals of Enigma. He just resolved an engineering issue. The guy who broke Enigma was Marian Rejewski.

  • @FairyWeatherMan
    @FairyWeatherMan 6 месяцев назад +10

    Turing, one of the greatest minds on the last century.
    Doomed by the narrow minds of his contemporaries.

  • @daveret1144
    @daveret1144 7 месяцев назад +15

    A great documentary and very absorbing. Very sad how Turing was treated after the war. Instead of being a hero he was victimized. Why didn't the hierarchy who were involved with Bletchley do anything to help him?

    • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
      @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 6 месяцев назад

      Let’s hope it was because they were sworn to secrecy and not because they were homophobes. It’s also possible and logical that they thought if they came to his defense they would be branded as gay

    • @marymariana7025
      @marymariana7025 5 месяцев назад

      it breaks my heart so much!!!

    • @shanewaterman4125
      @shanewaterman4125 4 месяца назад

      Because 1. they were sworn to secrecy, 2. if they were homosexual, at the time (early 1950s) they risked exposing themselves and possible prosecution and the loss of their careers too 3. very few of them kept in touch with each other after Bletchley was wound down and they returned to their academic lives.
      You also have to remember that was a VERY different world to today. News did not go round the world in 15 seconds like it does now. Many of those who worked with Turing didn't even know he died, let alone was in trouble with the authorities.
      One of the few accurate statements in The Imitation Game (Don't get me on that movie!) was what Stuart Menzies says to Turing and his close team right at the end: 'With any luck none of you will ever see me or each other again'. That was much closer to the truth than you might imagine.

    • @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
      @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe 3 месяца назад

      He knew who he was working for . Take current pop agenda elsewhere.

    • @veritas41photo
      @veritas41photo 2 месяца назад

      @@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Most likely (I think): Coming to Turing's defense might have revealed too much about the Allies' code-breaking capabilities during the worst years of the Cold War.

  • @jarosawzon4272
    @jarosawzon4272 9 месяцев назад +63

    The Enigma was broken in 1932 by three Polish mathematicians: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, who were employed by the Polish military Cipher Bureau. The first Polish copy of the military version of "Enigma" was built in the "Ava" factory in Warsaw in 1933. The process of putting the elements together took place in Pyry near Warsaw. From then on, Poles could read German military correspondence. In 1939, Poland handed over the Enigma documentation to the British.

    • @CharlesHarpolek4vud
      @CharlesHarpolek4vud 9 месяцев назад

      If a single cadre had a crew of guided assistance to place carefully where's bigwig types, a big policy function could be set up and continued. i think those find other cadres to dominate their World Vision. Dulles it's gone from central CIA control so that now it can be active in little cadre groups.

    • @CharlesHarpolek4vud
      @CharlesHarpolek4vud 9 месяцев назад

      A bigwig type person might well welcome a smart assistant who also strips off nightly for personal service. Who is running who or controlling --here's the question for the modern world.

    • @jarosawzon4272
      @jarosawzon4272 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@CharlesHarpolek4vud I don't know what you're talking about, but you've got the threads mixed up.

    • @brettread6373
      @brettread6373 8 месяцев назад +4

      My understanding is that they didn't crack the code all together ,However their work was a very significant factor to full breaking the code Alan Turing acknowledged their contribution .
      He had no doubt that without the Polish mathematician work, things would have taken longer .

    • @jarosawzon4272
      @jarosawzon4272 8 месяцев назад +8

      @@brettread6373 :))) Then you are completely wrong, because Poles built a working copy of Enigma and read German messages for several years. Later they hand over the complete working Enigma copy along with the documentation to the English.

  • @deecawford
    @deecawford Год назад +40

    Ah this little machine was genius. Glad it was figured out layer by layer. This is an amazing video, thank you

    • @user-ky5dy5hl4d
      @user-ky5dy5hl4d Год назад

      It was NO(!) ‘’genius’’ of Alan Turing that cracked Enigma. It was Polish mathematical geniuses Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski who cracked Enigma. No American nor British did that. Get your history straight.

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 10 месяцев назад

      @@user-ky5dy5hl4d Complete BS.

    • @CharlesHarpolek4vud
      @CharlesHarpolek4vud 9 месяцев назад

      KY5DY.......?@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 are you forming opinions without adequate research?

    • @johnsmith-rs2vk
      @johnsmith-rs2vk 9 месяцев назад

      Yep , spot on !

    • @pauleshlin4374
      @pauleshlin4374 7 месяцев назад

      @@johnsmith-rs2vkq

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 7 месяцев назад +6

    Don't forget Poland got the first enigma machine and 3 Polish scientists/mathematicians did the ground work.

  • @joslynscott466
    @joslynscott466 Год назад +12

    From the United States, thank you Bletchly.

  • @clee6746
    @clee6746 9 месяцев назад +18

    Everyone who is a major in Computer Science knows the famous Turing Machine. He's the father of Computer Science.

    • @johnmcleodvii
      @johnmcleodvii 6 месяцев назад

      And hopefully, the Turing test.

  • @mujadidalfisani1245
    @mujadidalfisani1245 10 месяцев назад +6

    a documentary on who and how enigma is created would be wonderful

  • @chadczternastek
    @chadczternastek 9 месяцев назад +30

    I always knew the basics of the story. But watching this video was the most enjoyable piece of anything I ever watched. Knowing what was at stake, and the little details just made it so much the better.
    Those folks at Station X are heroes that should be remembered forever, along with the gents of the Royal Air Force. I just love everything about England and just such a remarkable country over time. To know they were at their knees and made it just gives me goosebumps. Had Hitler been more competent, the war could of turned out much different.

    • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
      @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

      Now Mr turning or enigma did you design with your creeks to start side to the back side to your rivers and to the directions of some of your waterfalls or your top strings

    • @linda.m.s72
      @linda.m.s72 7 месяцев назад

      I always thought that had Hitler not been hellbent on destroying Jewish people and concentrated solely on war efforts that Germany may have won. Perhaps the Jews saved whole nations of people from the misery of Nazi takeover.

  • @kindnessfirst9670
    @kindnessfirst9670 7 месяцев назад +12

    I read a lot of books about WW Two and it's frightening how many things happened that if they hadn't WW Two might have been lost and the world been ENTIRELY different. Even the breaking of the Nazi code depended on lot's of separate things that very well might not have happened the way they did. Reminds me of the proverb "For Want of a Nail".

    • @theguy455
      @theguy455 6 месяцев назад

      Yes, by luck and effort a few key things happened and the Allies won WW 2. Also very fortunate that Alan Turing was there at the right time and place. Then this post I just made:
      Today the codes produced by Enigma would be decoded in a minute using modern cryptographic methods and a modern PC. Amazed me when I looked into it. In fact with the advent of quantum computing current cryptographic codes will be easily decoded. What to do?
      For those not familiar with quantum computing, something I just started looking into, here's info out of a book, Quantum Supremacy, I just acquired: Google's Sycamore quantum computer solved a mathematical problem in 200 seconds that would take the current world's fastest supercomputer 10,000 years. We are on a threshold of a new computing era that will make today's fastest supercomputers look like an abacus.

    • @johnmcleodvii
      @johnmcleodvii 6 месяцев назад

      I'm not certain whether WW II would have been lost, or just taken longer. Russia was still a factor and the eastern front would have still been there. Once the US was in the war because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the industrial might of the US was in full swing thanks to Rosy and her pals.
      We were producing merchant vessels faster than the Germans were sinking them, even when we weren't breaking their code.

    • @firebald2915
      @firebald2915 5 месяцев назад

      No way that Germany would have won... It may have taken a bit longer. German's were short of fuel supply. And Russian's were relentlessly killing.

    • @shanewaterman4125
      @shanewaterman4125 4 месяца назад

      @@firebald2915 if Germany had stopped and NOT invaded the Soviet Union, they could easily have consolidated their hold on Europe, by-passed the UK and focused their efforts against the USA once technology had enabled them to do so. Stalin would have supported any attempt to weaken the US. The outcome - and the rest of the 20th century - could have been very, very different....

    • @firebald2915
      @firebald2915 4 месяца назад

      ​@@shanewaterman4125Nah... they were self destructing from within by 43/44. They didn't have unlimited man power, and Italy was defeated. Resources and the railways were choaked off. Germany didn't have a chance. IF... is hindsight.

  • @johngray8606
    @johngray8606 11 месяцев назад +14

    Years after the war ended the benevelant UK government decided Turin should be pardoned. My God, why didnt they do this when the man was alive? Did they think this made them squeaky clean. That they did the right thing. Bloody hipocrites. RIP Alan. Blessings from Argentina.🌹🌹🌹

    • @grahamlait1969
      @grahamlait1969 10 месяцев назад +3

      We forget now that homosexuality was illegal when Turing was convicted. We must also remember that in the early 1950s, when Turing was convicted for being one, there had just been the defection of two major Russian spies in British intelligence (Burgess and MacLean) who were known homosexuals. All homosexuals in the British hierarchy were therefore suspect as spies, a suspicion that was exacerbated by the normal homophobia of the time. That is why Turing was so persecuted. This is not an excuse for that persecution. It is, at least, an explanation. Incidentally, Turing's sexual preferences were widely known about in Bletchley during the war.... and nobody cared.

    • @buildmotosykletist1987
      @buildmotosykletist1987 10 месяцев назад

      @@grahamlait1969 : Turings best friend was a girl and he married her.

  • @fordprefect4345
    @fordprefect4345 Год назад +43

    Marian Rejewski broke the Enigma code. Thanks to the achievements of cryptologists and possession of the commercial machine and documents provided by French intelligence, Poles started work on building a copy of the Enigma soon after. To put that into perspective, on 30 January 1933, one month after the code was broken, Hitler became chancellor of Germany. With the second world war looming, Poles had to share their knowledge about the Enigma with British and French colleagues. During a meeting in Pyry, near Warsaw, in July 1939, Rejewski and his colleagues demonstrated how to crack the machine and gave each allied side a replica. This allowed Alan Turing to continue their work at Bletchley Park.

    • @user-ky5dy5hl4d
      @user-ky5dy5hl4d Год назад

      Correct. It was NO(!) ‘’genius’’ of Alan Turing that cracked Enigma. It was Polish mathematical geniuses Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski who cracked Enigma. No American nor British did that. Get your history straight.

    • @pawelski7536
      @pawelski7536 Год назад

      Them British will never admit they've had Enigma's copy with 'instruction manual' from Poles. The only problem they've overcome was Enigma developed later on (3 to 5 rotors) and necessity to crack the code by a machine due multiplying mathematical operations. At the end of a day, them British are well known pirates and crooks. They always stick to their Story. The truth is irrelevant. I've heard (Joanna Lumley told that story to the TV audience years ago) that Ian Fleming once came to his boss saying about a plan to get hands on Enigma by boarding one U-Boot by SOE squad and stealing it. Soon after he was able to tell his stories living on a sunny beach on remote tropical Island.

    • @d.o.g573
      @d.o.g573 Год назад +4

      The actual system to decrypt ENIGMA had NOTHING to do with the polish approach.
      It had to be redone completely by Turing.
      He thanked the polish for inspiring him.

    • @user-ky5dy5hl4d
      @user-ky5dy5hl4d Год назад +5

      @@d.o.g573 If not for the Polish mathematicians Turing wouldn't know how to begin.

    • @d.o.g573
      @d.o.g573 Год назад +2

      @@user-ky5dy5hl4d
      Oi a bot.
      The British, led by Alan Turing, took a different approach to breaking Enigma. Instead of focusing on the internal workings of the machine, they developed a machine called the Bombe that was designed to automate the process of trying different combinations of settings in order to decrypt messages. The Bombe was able to break the Enigma cipher so much faster than the Polish techniques, and the Allied were able to read a significant number of German messages throughout the war.
      You see the key element in decryption is speed.
      What use is a message that is weeks or months old and reads „don’t forget to buy milk 🐮…“

  • @ianherd569
    @ianherd569 7 месяцев назад +9

    I know that the "Officer Class" will not like it but contribution made by Tommy Flowers was magnificent, so much so that his efforts have been subdued.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 7 месяцев назад +1

      Why say officer class, i found out i was born in same terraced house as Grammer school kid who became a code breaker, Sir Harry Hinsley.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 7 месяцев назад +2

      His mother was school cook, father coal man.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 7 месяцев назад

      Like 3 quarters of Battle of Britain pilots were ordinary kids, i bet most Grammer school because you had to be reasonably bright. Back then lot more Grammer schools.

    • @peach7210
      @peach7210 5 месяцев назад

      Tommy Flowers is a name that should be included in history class. His contribution was/is remarkable.

    • @shaggydogfarms
      @shaggydogfarms 5 месяцев назад

      The corporations stole his invention..NEVER paid him...he wasn't bitter However ❤

  • @janiceduke1205
    @janiceduke1205 Год назад +23

    Bletchley Park, the location of the top-secret Ultra code-breaking team described by Churchill as “My geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled.”

  • @colinevans2294
    @colinevans2294 Год назад +7

    Brilliant documentary.

  • @zulkiflijamil4033
    @zulkiflijamil4033 10 месяцев назад +6

    A fascinating documentary on once great event in history.

  • @ronalddesiderio7625
    @ronalddesiderio7625 Год назад +8

    That Turring cat was a human computer . Next level Genius

  • @johnadam6286
    @johnadam6286 Год назад +48

    That's actually one of the best documentary I watched about the enigma machine! From the beginning , it gave a great insight on how it actually came to be, how it worked ( genius engineering ) and how we deciphered that thing. We should always be grateful for Alan's Turing work, developing the first modern computers. one of those beautiful mind that we lost because of human greed & homophobia.
    keep up the great content 👊

    • @andrewmaxfield5873
      @andrewmaxfield5873 10 месяцев назад +3

      That's a brilliant comment - well stated - agreed!

    • @elvirredzepovic6898
      @elvirredzepovic6898 9 месяцев назад

      Poles deciphered Enigma. Brittish cunts took credit for it.

    • @petertlusty3343
      @petertlusty3343 7 месяцев назад

      He was one of a team not a word of recognition for Gordon Welchman and Harold Keen Not the greatest of documentaries IMO

  • @TheSteveSteele
    @TheSteveSteele 6 месяцев назад +7

    This is the best documentary video I’ve seen in a long time. And that it’s two hours is even better.

  • @GilbertHorn1
    @GilbertHorn1 8 месяцев назад +4

    Absolutely fascinating!

  • @adrianovasconcelos2739
    @adrianovasconcelos2739 5 месяцев назад +1

    Perhaps because I was always a complete nullity in Maths, I really wonder at how the human mind managed to break the Enigma code on the basis of mathematical and other calculations

  • @ArcticAirUltraPro
    @ArcticAirUltraPro 9 месяцев назад +9

    Very interesting doc still relavent today. Thank you for sharing and keeping these stories alive before they are gone

  • @hanaluong2672
    @hanaluong2672 28 дней назад

    What a documentary! I cannot stop watching. All my love for Alan Turing (and somewhat for Churchill as well).

  • @catherinemelnyk
    @catherinemelnyk 5 месяцев назад +1

    Interestingly, here in Ontario, Canada, we had Camp X. Ian Fleming was trained here.

  • @annbernstein164
    @annbernstein164 Год назад +6

    Did they destroy him or did he destroy himself. Isn't someone who saved other people's lives enough for someone?

  • @anxietyislandllc
    @anxietyislandllc Год назад +3

    Great documentary destroyed by way too many RUclips commercials.

    • @delzworld2007
      @delzworld2007 11 месяцев назад

      I am watching this doc on a laptop with Windows 10 OS. Never see any adverts, except sometimes at the beginning, that can be skipped after just a few seconds.

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 10 месяцев назад

      @@delzworld2007 Install an adblocker and apart from any "sponsors" the content creator slips in, there are NO adverts on my YT.

  • @Stand663
    @Stand663 7 месяцев назад +2

    Gosh how brilliant are the British. They invented the modern computer as we know it today. Brilliant.
    RIP Alan Turing .

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    I Appreciate the help

  • @user-nv7dn4yr7f
    @user-nv7dn4yr7f 6 месяцев назад

    a documentary on who and how enigma is created would be wonderful. A fascinating documentary on once great event in history..

    • @johnmcleodvii
      @johnmcleodvii 6 месяцев назад

      They exist, but they are much shorter.
      The short version is that the first enigma was developed to keep banking transmissions secure. The Germans just took this whole. The only addition was the extra rotor added by the German fleet. They did choose a different wiring link between the rotors.

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад +1

    Always sometimes they use fraction ratios to play certain gravity layers to how they understand the pyramids or the atmosphere that they produce inside a different depths

  • @theresachartier1582
    @theresachartier1582 7 месяцев назад +5

    What is missing is the crucial work of Elizabeth Smith Friedman who developed a method of code breaking with her husband who worked for American Intelligence at the time. She found a flaw in the Enigma coded messages which led to the downfall of Hitler’s top SS man whose code name was SARGO. By breaking the Enigma code, she tracked SARGO to South American where he had set up a second team of spies. Broken for the second time, SARGO went underground and would never organize another spy system again. South America broke ties with Hitler and Japan and became an ally to Europe and American. Elizabeth Smith Friedman’s work was classified and sealed. Herbert Hoover took all credit by stamping all her team’s deciphered messages with the FBI seal. It wasn’t until 2008 when her file was declassified that the world found out the truth. Her work was groundbreaking and her methods still applied today. She is worth looking up!

    • @virginial.franco8450
      @virginial.franco8450 7 месяцев назад

      ALAS, LITTLE KNOWN TO THE MANY.😢❤

    • @theguy455
      @theguy455 6 месяцев назад

      I saw a documentary about her awhile ago. No longer free to watch but available on YT or Amzn, 'The Codebreaker'. Still another case where women in those days never got the recognition they should have for their amazing contributions.

  • @carrickrichards2457
    @carrickrichards2457 7 месяцев назад +5

    Flower (Collosus), Welchman, Tiltman, Newman, Tutte (and the Poles) all had remarkable minds and huge impacts. It is odd Turing gets so much credit and not the others.

    • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
      @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 6 месяцев назад

      Nonsense notion. He got credit long before wokeness and for a gay man to get credit for anything they did means they must be extraordinary

  • @Seanwilliamsmart
    @Seanwilliamsmart 11 месяцев назад +5

    Shame they didn’t have captions for the German language pieces

    • @shanewaterman4125
      @shanewaterman4125 4 месяца назад

      They did in the original version which was filmed in the old 4:3 ratio. This has been reformatted to 16:9 but they haven't gone back in and put the captions and subtitles back in.

  • @leanderrowe2800
    @leanderrowe2800 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love this documentary. Sounds fascinating like solving a puzzle. My puzzle here is : why there is English subtitle in the whole documentary except when German was spoken ? 🤔🙄

  • @quotemenot7520
    @quotemenot7520 Год назад +47

    The millions of lives saved by the brilliant Alan Turing and his incredible team, only to kill himself because he was gay. The British government were instrumental in his death and a lovely way to honour and show your appreciation to this brilliant mind and man. He was offered chemical castration or prison, and took his own life in 1954. Shameful way to treat a real hero by people who got what they want and once they did, simple threw him away. Thank you Alan, absolute legend. May you forgive and forever R.I.P

    • @user-ky5dy5hl4d
      @user-ky5dy5hl4d Год назад

      It was NO(!) ‘’genius’’ of Alan Turing that cracked Enigma. It was Polish mathematical geniuses Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski who cracked Enigma. No American nor British did that. Get your history straight.

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@user-ky5dy5hl4d If I dig the footings of a building, does that mean I built the entire skyscraper?
      Don't talk complete BS.

    • @user-ky5dy5hl4d
      @user-ky5dy5hl4d 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 If you dig then it's probably your grave.

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@bfc3057 Obviously got more experience in life to see when an agenda is overriding reality. Much like the legions of coloured "nobles" in modern TV "period dramas".
      Lets talk some more about the other leading lights of the "ULTRA" team, I suppose you've zero knowledge on the subject and prefer to have it spoonfed to you by others?

    • @buildmotosykletist1987
      @buildmotosykletist1987 10 месяцев назад +1

      @bfc3057 : Turing was one member of a very large team.

  • @user-cz9re6xq8d
    @user-cz9re6xq8d 11 месяцев назад

    interesting!!

  • @eng3d
    @eng3d 6 месяцев назад +1

    In perspective, it achieved little because UK wasn't even predominant in the war. Russia and US took the lead in the war.
    Also, thanks to the secrets of UK, US and Russia fought without knowing about the decode of Enigma.

  • @user-ts3jp3os3e
    @user-ts3jp3os3e 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hut 33 is a hilarious comedy about Bletchley Park, well worth a listen.

    • @shanewaterman4125
      @shanewaterman4125 4 месяца назад

      It's brilliant! Series 1 has just been on BBC Sounds.

  • @TB-bb6kb
    @TB-bb6kb Месяц назад

    Polish criptologists decoded Enigma in 1932 and at the verge of war decided to give British all they have achieved including enigma and computerized “ Bomba “ which helped speed up the process of reading German communication traffic . All that helped British as a fundament to create “ Ultra “ . Credit goes where credit is do .

  • @TimelessWorldOfGaming
    @TimelessWorldOfGaming Месяц назад

    It sounds like the same process they use to break the code in games and understand random number generation to manipulate the seemingly random odds. Some people are just too smart.

  • @gordonbradley3241
    @gordonbradley3241 9 месяцев назад +8

    What about my hero ?
    Tommy Flowers ?
    He converted Turing's theories into machine that worked !

    • @utha2665
      @utha2665 7 месяцев назад

      I am wondering whether you watched the whole documentary? There was a good piece on him towards the end with an interview as well.

  • @amclellan100
    @amclellan100 29 дней назад

    Makes you realise what both sides went through and how much we owe to the forces in the war ...

  • @toddavis8603
    @toddavis8603 7 месяцев назад

    Great story of Station X Intell, helping to save many lives.◆◇◆

  • @SueFerreira75
    @SueFerreira75 10 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent documentary but why no subtitles when German was spoken at the most crucial moment of the U-Boat surfacing?

  • @bookaufman9643
    @bookaufman9643 8 месяцев назад +3

    Something that's never mentioned in any of these documentaries about the enigma was what kind of code were the British using and was it in any way readable by the Germans?

    • @egg399.
      @egg399. 7 месяцев назад

      can’t remember where i saw it but the germans were listening into some of our cypher traffic

    • @bookaufman9643
      @bookaufman9643 7 месяцев назад

      @@egg399. I'm sure they were listening in to everything I'm just wondering what kind of codes we were using and how difficult were they to transcribe or to figure out? You never hear about it from that angle but I'm guessing that for the most part are codes for pretty secure because I've never really heard of anything big that they knew from breaking code. They certainly didn't get the Normandy invasion correctly but that was probably complete radio silence for a long time beforehand.

    • @egg399.
      @egg399. 7 месяцев назад

      @@bookaufman9643 well, in fact the allies were in fact transmitting loads in the south east of England under general paton’s “First Army”. It was a fake army being used to convince hitler the real attack would come from Dover and that the Normandy invasion was a fake.

    • @egg399.
      @egg399. 7 месяцев назад

      @@bookaufman9643 have a read of this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_code_breaking_in_World_War_II

    • @utha2665
      @utha2665 7 месяцев назад

      @@bookaufman9643 There would have been radio traffic for sure, in fact the allies were sending all kinds of messages designed to confuse the Germans. So much so that the Germans were convinced the invasion was to be Calais and not Normandy. Along, of course, with the inflatable vehicles to have them think there was a build up for an invasion of Calais. It did make sense as this was the shortest route across the channel.

  • @user-uz7ir9sc1t
    @user-uz7ir9sc1t 11 дней назад

    For a codebreaker like myself, it helps a great deal if you're someone who can see in the abstract, both literally and figuratively, using my sense of sight, combined with a visual imagination, as well as analytical type of thinking, rationale or reasoning. It helps sometimes to see beyond what is logical, in order to see the hidden things, hiding in plain sight. I also find it helps a great deal to have a level of enhanced ESP because humans do have a sixth sense, though few people ever realize it and never tap into it in order to increase their intellectual capabilities.

  • @philipbuckley759
    @philipbuckley759 5 дней назад

    Using information that they decoded from the Germans, the Allies were able to prevent many attacks. However, to avoid Nazi suspicion that they had insight to German communications, the Allies had to allow some attacks to be carried out despite the fact that they had the knowledge to stop them.

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    So on your side of the country how many did you catch pulling the rotation of the atmospheres and energy streams to take out weight material or to pull someone else's technology outside in

  • @headofmyself5663
    @headofmyself5663 Год назад +5

    What a gem of a video!

  • @Jon-xw9om
    @Jon-xw9om 8 месяцев назад +1

    @16.00 "What about if they'd been stupid enough to just use ABCD..."
    The Nazi equivalent of using "Password" to sign in.

  • @benjaminrush4443
    @benjaminrush4443 6 месяцев назад +2

    Bletchley Park and the Enigma Code was such an importantly successful endeavor for the Allies. Just think of this one element missing and how much harder it would have been for total success in defeating Hitler. Besides, we saw the introduction of the modern electronic computer. Great learning. Enjoy. Thanks.

    • @sharonprice42
      @sharonprice42 6 месяцев назад

      The Polish were the first to break the enigma code

    • @benjaminrush4443
      @benjaminrush4443 6 месяцев назад

      1939 - Just before Hitler invaded Poland by Polish scientist researchers, when the Enigma had only three tumblers. They concluded accurately how the German System worked but didn't have the time to complete their finding. Luckily, they gave the necessary data to the British and they eventually - with time - were successful. When the Germans switched to four tumblers, the British were without "Code Breaking" for a while. I believe just before D Day and afterwards. Then came the 'Computer'.
      The German Blitzkrieg Idea was first tried on Poland, but don't forget, the Russians also attacked Poland from the East. Just too much. Everybody was "Overwhelmed" with the German Mechanized Assault Concept, for the rest of the world was still thinking on a WW I Concept of warfare. Thanks for the Reply. @@sharonprice42

  • @strictlycasual765
    @strictlycasual765 7 месяцев назад +1

    Has this man had an official pardon from the government yet?

    • @shanewaterman4125
      @shanewaterman4125 4 месяца назад

      19th August 2014, sixty years after his death, HM The Late Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a posthumous pardon

  • @michaelhayden725
    @michaelhayden725 6 месяцев назад

    As I understand it the people who worked in Station X were still bound by the Official Secrets Act more than 30 years after the war ended.

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    Pumps direction

  • @jacksimpson-rogers1069
    @jacksimpson-rogers1069 7 месяцев назад

    The Hackers' Dictionary includes the adjective "bletcherous" which all by itself sounds severe enough. But I presume that it right appropriately alludes to Bletchley ParkQ

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    To know what spin cycle they're using

  • @dennistate5953
    @dennistate5953 Год назад +1

    Heroes!!!❤❤❤

  • @delzworld2007
    @delzworld2007 9 месяцев назад

    Its a strange world we live in where Colossus never existed, that is until 30 years after the end of WW2.

  • @europhile2658
    @europhile2658 7 месяцев назад

    Very good video. When the extra wheel was added, did the Germans not notice? Similarly when they could read it again, did they not notice?

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    Which way is your hydraulic pressure

  • @kbl644
    @kbl644 3 месяца назад

    Does the word duh mean anything to you? *Imagine the hand gestures.

  • @andytaylor2195
    @andytaylor2195 7 месяцев назад +1

    It would be great if there were subtitles for the German language interviews

  • @Aspasia2929
    @Aspasia2929 11 месяцев назад +3

    I really identified with David Baum who found that important letter but had no idea what said BECAUSE HE DOESN’T SPEAK GERMAN; I don’t speak German either so I would have appreciated SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH whilst the German guy was speaking!!! To quote my teenage son DUH!

    • @7ismersenne
      @7ismersenne 10 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed very much. Not having english translation of the german is plain stupid.

    • @shanewaterman4125
      @shanewaterman4125 4 месяца назад

      The documentary was originally made in 4:3 format with subtitles and name captions. This is reformatted 16:9 version which has cut all of that off, and they haven't bothered to go back in and reinstate them.

  • @rickrotten498
    @rickrotten498 7 месяцев назад +1

    They couldn't get a shot of DC b roll without a jet liner flying thru?🙄😅

    • @moldyoldie7888
      @moldyoldie7888 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yes it does look out of place.

  • @mclovin9578
    @mclovin9578 8 месяцев назад +1

    No subtitles when the German guy was talking? Seemed kinda important. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @cyndyturner8511
    @cyndyturner8511 11 месяцев назад

    I heard one of the Cambridge 5 was part of this

    • @zabdas83
      @zabdas83 7 месяцев назад

      Caincross... But he was not the 5th man, although he was a spy for the USSR.

  • @kennethquinnies6023
    @kennethquinnies6023 3 месяца назад

    You should do one on how one dead british officer helped win ww2

  • @henryhiggins8198
    @henryhiggins8198 7 месяцев назад

    I agree with the following correction, about Polish people breaking the code first. There were several,AIAIK, several german codes

  • @Likwidfox
    @Likwidfox 11 месяцев назад +1

    The German needs caption at 53min. He goes on and on.

  • @tanhuutinh
    @tanhuutinh 2 месяца назад

    Best things ever know...

  • @janinedemko3753
    @janinedemko3753 4 месяца назад

    What did it look like

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    Hydraulic pressure gravity's pressure and directional flow

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 9 месяцев назад

    Old school , best brains .

  • @shithomas9842
    @shithomas9842 5 месяцев назад

    The Sigma machine was cracked by Turing using an early computer, right?

  • @freexjola9231
    @freexjola9231 9 месяцев назад

    Sad 😢

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 9 месяцев назад

    I never did manages the Time 's crossword !

  • @smokindragn1
    @smokindragn1 5 месяцев назад

    Some people would say that the American War Industry was responsible for the Allied victory...that was true towards the end of the war. But at the beginning of the war (1941) when the German and Japanese codes were broken that helped turn the war in the Allies favour.

  • @TonyFarley-gi2cv
    @TonyFarley-gi2cv 7 месяцев назад

    Because of the way they would have technology built now anytime they would fly up in space they would have this rotation being pulled so in my opinion they wouldn't even be able to get out there far enough something would always be turning inside of their gears against them

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 9 месяцев назад

    The best brains !

  • @diedertspijkerboer
    @diedertspijkerboer 6 месяцев назад

    The barracks, or huts, as they were called, where the codebreakers worked were not heated. That is, except for some, which were said to hold valuable cargo.
    Those were the huts where the Americans worked.

  • @johnmellor932
    @johnmellor932 Год назад

    Anyone know how old this Doc is? Those interviews must be 30 years old. But the Doc itself feels modern.

    • @Ellio1862
      @Ellio1862 Год назад +3

      1999 - It was originally a Channel 4 documentary series on British TV.

    • @tonirose6776
      @tonirose6776 Год назад

      @@Ellio1862 Which explains how the woman describing Turing's 'shyness' around women wasn't commented upon by the interviewer or someone else in the doc to explain what was behind the shyness. (or Turing's tragic ignominious end.)

  • @johnmartin3517
    @johnmartin3517 9 месяцев назад +1

    too much subject between the ads!

  • @flybobbie1449
    @flybobbie1449 7 месяцев назад

    I found out i was born in the same house as code breaker Sir Harry Hinsley.

  • @laserbeam002
    @laserbeam002 Год назад +4

    This just goes to show that the WW2 generation really was the greatest general ever. Both in Great Britain and the U.S. All the preceding generations have, and are, falling short.

    • @Doomhollows
      @Doomhollows 7 месяцев назад

      I think literally the fact you are commenting online from a moblie/computer stronger than anything ever created would say otherwise. And that fact that we arent in a war.

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 8 месяцев назад

    When brains were brains !

  • @alfred-vz8ti
    @alfred-vz8ti 10 месяцев назад

    in fact, germany was going sideways after moscow, backwards after stalingrad. the war was decided without reference to events in britain.
    from here, it looks like germany was hopelessly out-classed from the start.

    • @johnmcleodvii
      @johnmcleodvii 6 месяцев назад

      While the statement is true, it is also probable that breaking the Enigma code in Britain and the Purple code on the US shortened the war by at least several months, if not a couple of years.

  • @umeshdavidvermahuxley6139
    @umeshdavidvermahuxley6139 Год назад

    A for father, B for mother, C for daughter, D for daughter.

  • @paulpipek9108
    @paulpipek9108 7 месяцев назад

    Bletchley Park created a more advanced machine which was based on a Polish invention called "bomba" and a Polish system/machine which included only few "bomba's. These initial inventions were fundamental.

    • @sharonprice42
      @sharonprice42 6 месяцев назад

      The Polish were the first to break the enigma code .The Polish had a lot of practice being between Russia and Germany

  • @210gaz210
    @210gaz210 7 месяцев назад

    My bad, 1:37:40 good old Tommy

  • @keithranker3908
    @keithranker3908 10 месяцев назад +1

    While what was done to Turing was wrong, even up to 1990 or so, being gay was taught as being something foriegn agents could use to blackmail a person. However, I am unaware of anyone actually being successfully blackmailed because they were gay. It’s a fact that bad things were done by people working for both the Americans and the British. Because people still commit all kinds of sins, bad things are still done, unfortunately. Many bad things were done by people acting on their own initiative, not beiing ordered to or even encouraged to do them.

    • @buildmotosykletist1987
      @buildmotosykletist1987 10 месяцев назад +1

      There are a number of examples including 2 at what was later MI6, Burgess and Maclean. Also later on Blunt who was a homosexual. Also a number in America so the fear was well founded.

  • @kennethmaney914
    @kennethmaney914 9 месяцев назад +5

    My son suffers from Asperger's syndrome like Alan Turin. He passed every exam at school with top marks. He never revised because he had remembered everything he had ever been taught. But the down side of this syndrome is the inability to socialise, or to size people up which has made him a virtual recluse. He now puts his time into investments and is doing really well. His oldest son has just started University and has a good brain and no sign of his dad's problems.Alan Turin could have gone on to great things.....but. The secret service is responsible for ALOT of bad things and still are. They tried to recruit my grandson. All clouded in mystery of course. Makes you wonder who actually runs this country. Certainly not the African government we have now

    • @Spiritofaconure
      @Spiritofaconure 9 месяцев назад +3

      Your son sounds amazing, it’s a gift and a curse, that’s why animals make such great companions for people that are spectrum

    • @fionasaunders7646
      @fionasaunders7646 8 месяцев назад +2

      Great video, but over bearing music far too loud

    • @bookaufman9643
      @bookaufman9643 8 месяцев назад

      Since there was no Asperger's diagnosis in the time of Alan Turing we can't go back in time and designate that he had that form of autism. He may have just been an eccentric guy who had his own quirks. He definitely showed some of the signs and I'm not saying that he didn't have it but we really can't do historical diagnosis in any accurate manner.

    • @moldyoldie7888
      @moldyoldie7888 6 месяцев назад

      @@fionasaunders7646 And the picture is dark, too.

    • @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath
      @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 6 месяцев назад

      @@bookaufman9643 there’s no question that gay brains are different than straight male brains. this is where diversity is a definite benefit

  • @littlemonkeyone
    @littlemonkeyone 6 месяцев назад +1

    I suggest you watch the Documentary that Heddy Lamar was responsible for developing the scrambling. Because she was a Woman she didn’t get recognition.

  • @peach7210
    @peach7210 5 месяцев назад +2

    70 years after his death, I'm only now learning of Alan Turing. THAT is a tragedy.

    • @nielgregory108
      @nielgregory108 Месяц назад

      That is a PERSONAL problem. He is in the history books. That IS a tragedy you didn't learn anything growing up. I learned of Allen in the early 80's by reading a BOOK!!

  • @johnflesner8086
    @johnflesner8086 3 месяца назад

    Helped? Helped? Try instrumental.

  • @theguy455
    @theguy455 6 месяцев назад

    Today the codes produced by Enigma would be decoded in a couple of minutes using modern cryptographic methods and a modern PC. Amazed me when I looked into it. In fact with the advent of quantum computing current cryptographic codes will be easily decoded. What to do?