Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers - most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain.

[@tadhashi7220]

Fascinating stuff, will need to visit Bletchley park soon.

[@nimraaslam7715]

absolutely brilliant!

[@hopefullydaniel]

Wow! Great video.
Edit: Wow! Thanks for 2 likes!
Edit 2: Wow! 3 likes

[@gasgas2689]

People 'in the know' have greater respect for Bill Tutte and Tommy Flowers than Alan Turing - though that does not mean to diminish the work that Alan did. "If it was made by a machine it can be broken by a machine" was Alan's driving motivation. He was a lot more interested in what a machine could do, than the fact that it was helping to win the war.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Correct, I read his biography. Despite not being able to follow the scientific and mathmaticle stuff, it was still a facinating story. AND NOTHING, like that Hollywood film rubbish.

[@dfirth224]

@@MrDaiseymay The BBC Bletchley Park documentaries are on TH-cam and are much better than the movie. Turing is now thought to have had Asperger's Syndrome.

[@irenedavo3768]

Is this true?

[@rvrswmr1953]

Read 'The Rose Code' by Kate Quinn. Never knew about this. Very interesting.

[@stephenhubber9184]

Flog it!

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yeah ,missed this one, and it explains why they left out a lot of important parts of the story, like why, Tommy Flowwer's insisted on using electric ''Valves' ( Tubes ) by the hundreds.

[@garylucas7050]

Stayed there in the 80’s when it was owned by the post office