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@WizzRacing Ultra was SO much more than Alan Turing. It's like saying that Wilbur and Orville Wright built Concord.
Since 1932 the Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski & Jerzy Różycki worked within BS4 (the Polish general staff cipher Bureau focussed on German decryption & intelligence), and together with VITAL assistance given by the French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand (who had cultivated a German informant codenamed "Asché" who had provided French Intelligence with tons of vital data including a full nazi procedural manual for use of the enigma encryption device), had by the purchase of a commercial version of the early enigma device and LOTS of analysis eventually broken into German army and air force 3 rotor encryption networks, this was a fantastic achievement, but it is true to say that they at no time did they crack German Kriegsmarine encryption due to the additional layers of security employed by the German navy.
In December 1938 the nazis introduced a further 2 interchangeable encryption rotors to the enigma system, which immediately brought the vast majority of Polish decryption efforts to a grinding halt, which is where it remained up until the outbreak of WW2. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of WW2 the Polish research work was passed to the French, who in the six months they had it in their possession added little to the accumulated knowledge, and to the UK where the British government seized it with both hands, and made its study top priority. So was instigated the British "ULTRA" project.
Jerzy Różycki elected to stay behind and work in Vichy France where, unknown to the Germans he worked on a seperate secret encryption system, which bore no tangible fruit before his death in 1942.
Marian Rejewski & Henryk Zygalski were, for security reasons, not included in the UK "ULTRA" project, and so took no further part in British decryption efforts.
The British "ULTRA" project took the non working foundation research of the Polish decrypters and from there MASSIVELY expanded that research to once again break into nazi 3 rotor enigma, this was followed in 1942 by the cracking of the improved kriegsmarine M4 enigma (the 4 rotor enigma device, codenamed "SHARK"), as well as simultaneously breaking into the FAR more complex "lorenz" cipher device used by the German army & navy high commands (TUNNY), before finally cracking the "Geheimschreiber" encryption device used by both the Luftwaffe high command as well as the top level of the nazi government (STURGEON), on top of these British achievements another product of the ULTRA program was the building of the world's first programmable electronic computer (COLOSSUS) to speed up the breaking of German codes. This was designed and built by a British team led by Alan Turing and the telephone engineer Tommy Flowers, which transformed British decryption from a process which often only gave results days or even weeks after the message was eavesdropped on by the British, to a state of affairs towards the end of WW2 where the British were reading a LOT of top level communications at the same time as the intended German recipient.
The early Polish codebreakers did indeed provide the "acorn" from which the British cultivated the "mighty oak" of ULTRA.
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@maciejpieczula631 A lot of people in the UK are getting TIRED of the CONSTANT current day bitching and clueless insults from uninformed Poles and devious lefties directed at Britain for perceived historical "betrayal" as was taught to the Polish people for 45 years after WW2 by the communist authorities.
They seem to have utterly NO idea that they OWE their ENTIRE current existence to the British Empire ALONE.
What do they imagine would have happened to Poland if Britain and France did as the ENTIRE rest of the world did in 1939 and completely IGNORED the nazi / soviet dismemberment of Poland in 1939? Or if the isolated British Isles had instead decided to seek an armistice with the nazis after the fall of France in 1940?
Let me tell you what would have happened. Today Poland would not exist. It would simply be a footnote in modern history books, a former nation that would now be divided between nazi Prussia and the "General Government" region of the nazi Empire. The former Polish cities would now be "Germanised" and each would STILL today have swastikas flying above them, and most chillingly of all, the likes of Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Majdanek & Auschwitz would STILL be operating and belching human ashes into formerly Polish skies.
Please give over with the almost CONSTANT insults at the UK, the nation that made a sacrifice of 460,000 of it's citizen's lives, which ENTIRELY bankrupted itself and lost its empire ALL in the selfless effort to prevent a nazi domination of Europe, and saved your asses from extinction.
Best wishes to all intelligent, decent Poles from the UK. To all the idiot Polish commenters please leave your messages of thanks & gratitude to your saviours below.
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