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.

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

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

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

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".

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.

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

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.

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

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 👊

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.”

"Gordon Welchman, who became head of Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, has written: "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use." The Polish transfer of theory and technology at Pyry formed the crucial basis for the subsequent World War II British Enigma-decryption effort at Bletchley Park, where Welchman worked." - wikipedia

A fascinating documentary on once great event in history.

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

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 ? 🤔🙄

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

Absolutely fascinating!

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

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.

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.

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

Brilliant documentary.

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.

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

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.🌹🌹🌹

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.

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

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

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

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

Wish them what happened with some of the lettering bases in some of our files rotation in Congress would start turning and that's why they would start blaming other countries cuz they thought they decoded enigma back in the day but ultimately all they was doing was proven they was putting it in place or learning offset ratio balance to counterreact it

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!

I'm amazed by the lady at 08:32, she must be of great age but she still looks like she's in her early sixties at most.

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

Great documentary destroyed by way too many TRshow commercials.

The biggest tragedy for Germany was to keep using it well after the code was broken. Every uboat captain at sea knew.

Successful results in warfare is a result of intelligence gathering on your opponents weakness in predicting their actions to your advantage. The battle of midway in the pacific was successful because the Japanese code was broken and they never suspected it?

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

Trev me boy, that was a good visit you took us to. A slight side-track, I have a question, re. renting m/bikes. Yes of course things will come at you from all angles but is bicycling also prone to the same dangers. Do you have any experiences that you would like to share with us? Thanks for your never ending positiveness and entertainment.

From the United States, thank you Bletchly.

So also I'm one of the understandings I've seen with our government they align front desk and the public to fill out 1/0 as part of the representatives of their taxes and then it made it look like the consensual bases is always being recorded as the the public stealing or another country stealing

That Turring cat was a human computer . Next level Genius

Heroes!!!❤❤❤

What a gem of a video!

Even after all this time Tommy Flowers never gets a mention, shame he was not a poof and just a post office worker.

Churchill should have been suspended from 3 battles for stealing the enemy's signals, which gave the British an unfair advantage in the war.

RADAR made the biggest impact and the RN officer who worked out how the UBoats attacked the convoys.

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

They didn't mention the American NCR Bombe machines and their much faster decoding. So much faster that all important messages were sent to America for faster decoding.

Scientist as smart as the code Breakers and is dedicated could easily work up MK ultra type programmed people to work as guided assistance to bigwig types.

So the Brish/American movies about capturing the enigma machine off submarines etc. Goes along with them creating the world first computer?

Turing’s was a troubled life, betrayed by the country he saved, but he faced his infamous prosecution with amused fortitude.

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

Now Mr enigma let's go back to your keyboard if you would have alternated the depth or the direction of your creeks or rivers the arcs rotation in them you might have caught a little bit better at no one who's math and everything in between

The big question is what code did Britain use? ........ If British codes were broken the Germans would have guessed their code have been broken ???

World saving legend

Alan Turing was instrumental in winning the war and saving probably a million lives and England thanked him by persecuting him till he killed himself.. Couldn't Churchill have stepped in . He knew how important Turing was. Where was the Queen ? I mean don't they cut you a little slack for saving the country

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

So much was achieved by so few, for so many.

I heard one of the Cambridge 5 was part of this

As if WWII was a game whose outcome was "decided" by one person or side.

Antisemitism lives in the foundations of human society and human nature. The human ego-the desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature-evolves throughout history and during a person’s life. The more it grows, the more it feels an opposite force also dwelling within. That opposite force is called a “point in the heart.” Contrary to our egoistic desires that wish solely to absorb pleasures into themselves, the point in the heart is a desire that has potential to develop into a desire that loves, gives and positively connects to others. The point in the heart is also known as the seed of the soul, as we can develop it to discover our soul-the connection that underlies those very points. The realization of the potential encased in this small point of desire is the ability to rise above the human ego, where instead of detaching from one another through our growing egoism, i.e. increasingly prioritizing self-benefit over benefiting others, we instead prioritize the benefit of others and positive human connection. The point in the heart is the opposite of our egoistic nature. There are people who host only the negative egoistic force, and there are people who have both the negative egoistic force and the positive altruistic force. When both positive and negative forces coexist in us, then we become called “Jews” or “Israel” according to our inner essence. Likewise, if we solely host the negative egoistic force with no revelation yet of the point in the heart, then we are called “nations of the world” according to that essence. We underwent several stages of development throughout history. The point in the heart first surfaced throughout human society in ancient Babylon. The Babylonians who felt the inner urge to seek something deeper in life beyond the earthly egoistic desires joined Abraham, who taught a method for how to nurture the point in the heart in order to rise above the ego and positively connect. Abraham organized the Babylonians who wanted to study with him into a group, and he called this group “Israel,” which is made up of the words “Yashar Kel” (“straight to God”), i.e. people who aim themselves directly at the attainment of nature’s upper force of love, bestowal and connection, which is opposed to the force existing in human beings, the force of reception. Since Abraham’s time, the two groups-Israel and the nations of the world-have undergone much development. Some from the Israel camp left the group to pursue their natural egoistic inclinations, i.e. with an inclination to the nations of the world, while some from the nations of the world felt that they possess a special closeness and connection, which draws them to Israel. In other words, Jews are not a nationality, but they are people who host the point in the heart, which associates them with the positive force of nature, and which is opposite to the egoistic force that we are born and raised with by nature. The source of antisemitism is in the contrast and conflict between the two opposite desires of our inborn egoism and the point in the heart that can develop our ability to rise above the human ego.

station xxx just asked the Polish for the solution.. so why hire so many math/ns and code breakers... Even my grandma could pick up the phone and ask for Polish help...

I’m pretty sure polish intelligence gave French and English first enigma , built from scratch

Sad 😢

Even today it would take a room full of Cray computers to crack a message.

Turing, at the end, was high risk. Needed to go. 1:12:20 1:12:23

Old school , best brains .

With the greatest respect for the genius of Alan Turing, there's a strange ironic potential that may arise from his contributions to history... This story ends with the speculation of the "thousands, perhaps millions, of lives saved" by shortening the war. Yet, here we are at a time that modern thinkers are warning that Turing's hoped-for AI may be the end of the entire human race. No fault to Turing... Que sera sera...

Can call being persecuted - chemically castrated ? How times change - THANK GOD.

Turing did not break enogma code it was 3 polish matematicians.

The British never stood alone. That statement is their narcissists and arrogant nature talking. Heck, they weren't even much of an Allie.

I Appreciate the help

Don't we Brits just love congratulating ourselves on how wonderful we were for breaking the German enigma code?... and the huge, enormously expensive and complex organisation we set up to do so?... and don't we congratulate ourselves that the work of Bletchley shortened the war by a full year? Aye well, maybe... and we never mention that Rommel, in the desert war in North Africa, was known as the Desert Fox because he always seemed to know the plans of the British 8th army and react accordingly, thus staving off the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa for... oh, well over a year actually. The truth is that British signal security was so poor that Rommel, with a platoon of signallers in a few trucks, knew exactly what the British were up to on the battlefield. He also knew British battle plans from intercepting American signals from their Egyptian embassy to Washington. On Churchill's orders, the Americans (who were not in the war at the time) were told all the 8th army dispositions, strength and battle plans. The American code was obsolete and their codebook had been stolen from their embassy in Rome years before. Rommel was getting all this before Washington. No huge operation, just a few signallers in a few trucks: That's all it took for Rommel to prolong the war by... oh, about a year.

A homing carrier pigeon called Tommy brought back secret message about u boat pens in france which the royal air force then bombed .

Brilliant documentry

TheTimes crossword in 15 minutes !

When brains were brains !

Do you actually expect you viewers to understand German????

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

One thing they didn't have was any good mathematics teams

The best brains !

What happened to Turing should make Britain have a public holiday in his honour and in Britain's UTTER SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turings best friend was a girl. He married her.

Hedy Lamar and friend helped in the submarine, boucning frequency from bomb to bomb, something like that

To know what spin cycle they're using

interesting!!

50 year old cover up. He was the father of the first computer. What else have they covered up.

Just vait untill ze Germans hear about zhis - zhey vill be demanding a rematch 😂

My bad, 1:37:40 good old Tommy

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

I never did manages the Time 's crossword !

The stew went west !

Hydraulic pressure gravity's pressure and directional flow

That’s cops for ya !