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How Breaking The Enigma Code Helped Decide World War 2 | Station X (Full Series) | All Out History
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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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.
Helped? Helped? Try instrumental.
You should do one on how one dead british officer helped win ww2
Does the word duh mean anything to you? *Imagine the hand gestures.
Good to see this Channel 4 documentary again after so many years. Pity it's been reformatted for 16:9 from 4:3 and lost many of the name captions at the bottom of the frame (including translations for the German speakers). Oh well, at least it's being given an airing.
I've read through many of the comments on here and there's one thing I would like to address: 'They couldn't have done it without the Poles/Alan Turing/Tommy Flowers/Bill Tutte' and so on, and so on. I would put money on not a single person involved in Operation Ultra giving a tuppeny toss about 'who did what'. It was a collective effort, over several countries, across multi disciplines – with an added stroke luck and genius here and there along the way.
To get your head around this collective/collegiate concept, take a look at the supplementary documentary to Band of Brothers (We stand alone together) which features interviews with the Easy Company members still with us in 1999/2000. One of them is Bill 'Wild Bill' Guyarnere. Bill lost both legs in a shell burst in the forest at Bastogne and was invalided out of the US Army as a result.
Prior to that, from D Day to the day his life changed, he was one of Easy Company's most ferocious warriors who repeatedly put himself in harms way, forging ahead in battle and protecting his comrades when necessary. If anyone in that company had a right to claim that they were the person 'they couldn't have done it without' it was Bill.
Fast forward to that documentary and, when asked the question about how important a part he felt he'd played, he was having none of it. 'I was just one small part. That's all' He would NOT take credit for anything other than the part that the entire allied armed forces played in defeating the worst regime the world has ever known. Not once would he take credit above anyone else.
That's the very same mind set among the intellectuals who beat Enigma and the Geheimschreiber (the Lorenz cypher machine). It didn't matter which country you were from or what piece of the puzzle you solved (like the Poles applying their natural pragmatism to the machine settings and using ABCD, when the British were still trying everything other than 'the bleeding obvious') – it was all in the name of the common goal.
It doesn't matter that the Poles worked out the machine settings, or that the British had Turing, or that the American's built Bombes and Colossus' by the lorry load – beating the Germans and Japanese on the intelligence front was the battle. And, as in any battle, you always need both the Guards and the 'devils in skirts' (anyone from the UK reading this will get that little reference. If not, …. carry on reading…..;-) to get the job done.
If you've never been to Bletchley Park – GO. When you wander round the buildings and run through in your mind what went on there it is humbling beyond belief.
What did it look like
thanks for great documentary, as the guy says Alan Turing was a genius, and probably saved us from invasion, my heart breaks for the horrendous way they treated him after all he had done for his country, just because he was gay!!!! absolute disgrace!!! RIP Alan Turing and thank you.
This story could have been explained more succinctly.
Many species turn gay when there is overpopulation
The Sigma machine was cracked by Turing using an early computer, right?
70 years after his death, I'm only now learning of Alan Turing. THAT is a tragedy.
Pitty the German speaking bits are not translated
Winston Churchill has Bi-polar.
Many people with mental health illness, contribute and make us see , hear, read their beautiful works , at their expenses.. while we reap the reward of their works. Prs.Trump needs to be told.
Britney Spears, Catherine Zeta Jones – Oscar winner 🏆, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Earnest Hemingway,….
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
UK didn’t decriminalize homosexuality until 1980! And yet, UK seems to have a very high homosexual population. Astounding!
Hut 33 is a hilarious comedy about Bletchley Park, well worth a listen.
Did world war two really end. I wonder. I think its just been continuously going on and the players change. Just like a circle of so called friends, there's always somebody else's turn to be picked on and now its America's.
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.
Interestingly, here in Ontario, Canada, we had Camp X. Ian Fleming was trained here.
dang how a bout the translations when they forced the sub to come to the top?//??? jeeez………minute 50
The way British government treated this man is abominable, ungrateful, ugly. I read they apologized posthumously.
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.
Maybe it's just me but Ben Shapiro looks a lot like Turing. Wouldn't it be a weird irony if he's Turing reincarnated.
Polish jewish mathematicians did the donkey work ,not Turing… Its all stupid British chess thumping.. After WW2 we all became familiar with these nonsense fairytales , Brits inventing the jet engine or magnetron …Bullshit..
I wonder what information was shared with the Russians e.g. before the battle of Kursk
The Polish were the first to break the enigma code !!
For what he done for us all. And how long it took for him to be s as knowledge more shame for powers at be..
This code breaking didn’t win the war. Red army did ! Brits never shared these codes with Soviet Union. British snobs kept it for themselves. You title is wrong.
1:46:53. Daaa. The second world war (WWII) did not come to an end when Germany Surrendered. Daaa. Yes. the war in Europe was over… WWII was not. This documentary seems to have been created with persons with a rather limited understanding of the global nature of WWII. It's a fascinating story and great documentary, but how this mistake got past the editors baffles me.
Turing, one of the greatest minds on the last century.
Doomed by the narrow minds of his contemporaries.
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?