WW2 Documentary
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by mid 1940 German army had comfort all of Western Europe. Hitler was tightening the noose around Britain. In the Atlantic, German U boats were decimating allied convoys, threatening to cut off Britain's only lifeline. But Churchill had a secret weapon. Crossword fanatics, chess champions, mathematicians, students and professors, Americans and British all came to Bletchley Park with one common aim. To unlock the secrets of the enigma, a machine that sent seemingly unbreakable coded messages to agents and military personnel around the globe. If enigma could be penetrated, everything Hitler plotted would be known in advance. At Bletchley Park, there unfolded one of the most astonishing exploits of the Second World War. Many there had never seen a coat before. Yet it was their job to find a way to crack enigma. German cryptographers changed the code every day, which meant that every 24 hours Alan Turing and his team had to start again from scratch. Alan Turing's role in helping Great Britain defeat the Nazis cannot be understated. He was pivotal in Britain's defeat of Germany, thanks to his brilliance as a mathematician. Historians believe that breaking the Enigma code shortened the Second World War by about two years. But everything they did remained classified until the 19 seventies, when the story of Enigma was declassified and Alan Touring could be recognized for his significant contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence, modern computer science, world of cryptography and the defeat of the Axis powers in World War Two.