He Cracked Nazi Code to Win WWII. Then His Own Country Betrayed Him

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[@masternobody1896]

everyone should read the book deep work

[@shubhi7895]

Can you make a video of Enid Blyton ?

[@brianjaber3171]

I’m so happy you brought further recognition to one of the greatest minds to have lived. Every time I read or hear something about Alan Turing I actually get sad at how he was treated by the people who he saved. Thank you!

[@hustler212]

British, quite not a surprise

[@yashgupta6941]

@@burnwermple1038 atleast he was pardoned by the Queen after his death.

[@vladivanov4609]

@@burnwermple1038 I see you need another perspective. Yes miillions of soldiers fought the actual war but see it like this. One man, only one single man with his intelligence shortened the war and save millions of another soldiers who should have died. One man saved millions and that's why it's sad the way he was treated.

[@lilyerrington4556]

i live in bletchley and our whole school is based off the ww2 enigma coding, our houses/groups are called enigma, lorenz colossus and turing lol (all different tie colours)

[@0_0-f4x9z]

@@yashgupta6941 The key word is *after*

[@davideliasson8254]

“I am very proud to say: we’re sorry” - that statement is quite disturbing if you ask me

[@BinniamEskender]

I echoe that!

[@KorialstraszD]

It feels so utterly wrong to say that, How the hell did someone write that as the official statement and how did someone clear that too?

[@rihannagirl556]

I think it means that they are proud that times have changed and people have evolved and theyre no longer living on the wrong side of history and so an apology is due

[@DoubleAAce]

tbh he shouldnt need to apologise.

[@williamfied9500]

Its useless virtue signalling.

[@TheClickbaiterA]

Alan: Guys, i'm gay England: *your free trial life of living has ended*

[@davidmacphee8348]

If you are happy, I am fine with that.

[@squidfrick2239]

I am surprised they haven’t branded him or cut his left ear off (Harsh i know but thats what they did to the gays) Instead of getting rid of their most useful asset, Alan.

[@beesting7607]

Other cultures dont use gay as it was stolen by happy is it not homosexuality shorten that phrase

[@Rita-cd4mu]

Oi oi oi ye wanker yer loife centinc is bloody gone

[@sankalp2520]

@@beesting7607 "it was stolen". lol. You would be surprised to know that it's the straight people who started calling homosexuals gay and not the gay people themselves. So it was not stolen but given.

[@adamsmith5413]

One of the best minds of the 20th century, such a sad story. God bless.

[@chalobhai4751]

The saddest thing about betrayel is that it never comes from your enemies

[@baruchben-david4196]

Right. At least you expect that from enemies...

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Too true

[@mega_micro]

You mean, enemies betraying THEIR side? It always happens to them but not us, in my case.

[@VictorECaplon]

Feels weird to be watching this from the University of Manchester…in front of the Alan Turing building…

[@brolyshop6822]

Wow!

[@kirstenmc9497]

I am going to go there probably

[@codding32world50]

Cool!!

[@zapstarfr]

@@kirstenmc9497 you wont

[@SidharthPriyadarsh]

Damn

[@lazedimovski1342]

Truly a great man and a genius. I'm glad that they made the movie so that the world can find out who this man was. The end was however very sad and heartbreaking...

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Very true. It is nice that at the end of the film, they even acknowledge that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded Turing a posthumous royal pardon. This was done quite a while before the crime labels for homosexual act convictions were all whipped. This feels even more meaningful.❤️

[@hustler212]

Turing machine was defined in 1936, which was 15 years before the first computer was built, and is still the basis of computing computations today, in the modern world. Can you freakin' believe that.

[@seanplace8192]

The Catch 22 of breaking encryption is that you have to be extremely careful about how you act on the information. If your actions make it known to the enemy that you've broken their encryption, they'll change their encryption methods.

[@Mohan-Kirlosker]

Sometimes we also forget to appreciate the people who developed enigma machine and other devices just because they were with Hitler.

[@vivekc8563]

@@ens0198 i think he means in development of machine . they may or may not be innocent

[@giantcrack8079]

@@ens0198 british authority also do the same

[@you_are_welcome97]

This story still breaks my heart.

[@DeltaDoubleZero]

In university of Manchester as a student. The old Alan turning building where the computer was build up is in main campus. Very amazing to stand in front of it and just know one's legacy left behind.

[@krishnanaudiyal2778]

His brilliance cant be explained in a single video🙌

[@nguyenmungphan3701]

Always love to read and listen to Tesla's and Turing's life stories.

[@poppyormondroyd]

yess! the two are brilliant together, they created the future.

[@PLATOLOSOPHY]

Alan Turing was far more computer literate and competent than Gates and Jobs.

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

I wouldn't say the same for Gates. Gates is a certified Genius and knows his way around computers. Don't downplay his intelligence.

[@muzzle_4717]

@@mwanikimwaniki6801 they can't be compared to someone like Turing.

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

@@muzzle_4717 Oh yes he can. You can only underestimate him because he has lived to his full potential. Gates is probably the one guy who singlehandedly placed the course of humanity into a new era of computing. Gates and Turing are Computer Scientists who are giants. Very few might ever get to their league.

[@SlackersIndustry]

well at least jobs that guy doesnt come close

[@AcidiFy574]

​@@mwanikimwaniki6801 uhmmm no

[@alonharush4791]

Well I'm not leaving a comment very often, but I have to tell you that your videos are top quality, you're really good at making them and I really like them, thank you.

[@davidmacphee8348]

She is wonderful!

[@mrtrader3769]

A largely influential man brought from a international hero to a tragic end

[@curiousphilosopher2129]

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." ~ Alan Turing More inspiring quotes Alan Turing can be found in the book: "INSIDE ALAN TURING: QUOTES & CONTEMPLATIONS"

[@hemanthrajupdates...4204]

There are many forgotten geniuses in the world, but ur team Newsthink is really great for remembering them again. 🌹🌹

[@Keeby.]

i mean turing defo wasnt forgotten

[@BCHABARNAP]

Hey,I request you to make a video on SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN ,the brilliant Indian mathematician who also died in his early age.He made brilliant discoveries that would help us study BLACK HOLES and other significant works too!

[@SirFaceFone]

It's criminal what the UK government did to him while he was still alive.

[@anonymousyoutube4588]

His life story is best example for "life is not like sunshine and rainbows and life always being unfair".

[@StopITgetSomeHelpxD]

You fought the wrong enemy alan and you paid for it.

[@Tarotreading1122]

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."✊✊💪💪

[@hasleema.k.a.bhaukal6140]

No.

[@addy2954]

@@RazzBurs it really sucks😭

[@BinniamEskender]

Thank you, Turing! 🙏🏾

[@DLL-y4p]

Your videos are so well-narrated and details are concisely delivered without any long-winded boring moments.

[@xamava]

"A gifted and distinguished boy, whose future career we shall watch with great interest" ... now idk about you, but that sounds very Palpatine

[@dougjames4498]

Excellent presentation Cindy!

[@patrykgasikowski6329]

What's really sad in this story is the twisted truth. The first "bombe" or as it was known bomba kryptologiczna was created and developed by the Poles. Then given to the British. Turing was a genius indeed but try to complement him on his accomplishments without stripping the Poles of theirs.

[@jankowalskk6697]

damn right

[@ilaser4064]

Without fail this comment always appears, she acknowledges the initial work by the Poles, although she misses the differences in the machines ie added rotor and patch panel.

[@mk-1579]

​@@ilaser4064 They had no idea of how the machines worked. Without the initial work of the poles, and finding the flaw where a letter can never be itself, which was discovered by the poles, Turing would have gotten nowhere or be starting from step 1. Also the patch was only applied to naval enigma. Army and air force was fully cracked

[@ericjohnson6665]

Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game, playing Turing, was fantastic! That movie was a real eye opener, in part, because I owe my career in computers to Alan Turing. And the shortening of the WWII but breaking the codes of the Enigma machine by two years, was phenomenal! Interesting lesson imbedded in there too. Hitler's own egomania of requiring "Heil Hitler" in every communiqué was the cause of his own undoing! 🤣 Just like JK Rowling's remark about tyrants create the seed of their undoing... Voldemort killing Harry's parents made Harry the 'chosen one'. Yes, Turning was persecuted (and prosecuted) by England for his sexual preference, and that was despicable! Lesson hopefully learned.

[@utopianguy]

Never understood how people can think The Imitation Game was a good movie. It turned the seriousness of what Turing and his colleagues achieved into caricature.

[@AnshMittal007]

I believe a good movie is defined as how was the screenplay,script,acting,cinematography, sound track, the general story , movies editing but above all what defines a good movies is how much it was effective in connecting with its audience, in which I believe the imitation game was absolutely perfect even if it wasn’t the in the details of the work done by Alan Turing

[@jakeg3126]

@@utopianguy really? I thought that was a good movie.

[@utopianguy]

​@@jakeg3126 I had read the story of how Enigma code broken when I was young in a Science Magazine back in India. It was one of the most fascinating story of Espionage, Mathematics, etc. Not bullshit like shown in this movie. To see that this movie makes people believe that it was "Heil Hitler" at the end of the messages which led to the cracking of the code is so disappointing. Anyone with even preliminary knowledge of Cryptography knows plain text attack is the simplest form of decrypting an encrypted text. It is one of the techniques used in decrypting a code but cannot be singly attributed to breaking complex encryption of Enigma. It is actually laughable that the Movie makers chose to portray this way. I suppose they have little idea of real story behind breaking of Enigma. The real story is much more exciting and started in Poland with Polish Code Breakers working on Breaking Enigma but that is probably a much broader story. I would suggest, if you are interested, to start at the "Historical Inaccuracies" section of the movie "The Imitation Game" in Wikipedia

[@jakeg3126]

@@utopianguy Didn't it have a disclaimer in beginning that said it wasn't actual story

[@anupshikhare4112]

Thank you for bringing this up!

[@Ghrkriiewii9180]

damn got straight to the point instead of the usual youtubers telling you to subscribe at the beginning so i had to subscribe

[@naynay9099]

His story broke my heart :'(

[@SaregamapavanN]

just watched imitation game, what a story it is, benedict acting is top class, definitely in my all time top 10 movies

[@watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870]

So he’s an athlete and a genius, what a package.

[@huajie666liu8]

A genius born at a wrong time.

[@stephenwright8824]

You're kidding, right? Today his sexuality would be much more focussed on, his mathematical accomplishments ignored. Maybe it'll be better for him in 2040, but not now.

[@justice4all719]

@@stephenwright8824 Quite the opposite. The "elite" focused so much on his sexuality that his mathematical accomplishments and heroic actions didn't matter anymore. Only his sexuality did matter. There is a rising propaganda from the far right that wants to go back to this kind of way of considering LGBT+, which is as disgusting as it was before.

[@dreamcity9635]

I don't leave comments regularly.....but Cindy this video was great. It has great information which I am sure many were unware about. The editing was also great. Just loved it.😊

[@Tarotreading1122]

The instant you change your mentality you have changed your entire life ✊

[@conqueringyourselfisthebes4766]

True brother .

[@StuartDesign]

I feel like today's 'Turing' isn't likely to be found doing a tech start-up, but be toiling away in relative obscurity waiting for a Job's like figure to get credit for their work (when they eventually find a viable commercial application). I have no doubt the same thing will happen when we look back and reflect on what 'Geoffrey Hinton' has done for AI, when today it's Google getting making the headlines for building on his work from decades ago.

[@samcabrera2316]

The same goes with Gary Kildall, Dennis Ritchie, and so on.

[@KermXe]

We still have Turings today, they are phds and researchers. They aren't talked about however because its hard to write a news report about abstract mathematics that your average viewer wouldn't fall asleep watching.

[@hustler212]

It's no surprise, for he served british, and we all know they are not true to even themselves.

[@mrki731]

What a terrible injustice. Poor man/men. Terrible society.

[@amrit5679]

We love u Alan Turing 🙌🏻

[@Gigachad-mc5qz]

This is so sad. Turing is one of my idols and did way more than bill gates or steve jobs

[@jeshuruncarlos6649]

10:34 That Was A Seamless Transition To A Sponsor Segment

[@uberdriver9877]

He wasnt betrayed, he gave the ultimate sacrifice.

[@SKY_Sushil]

British Govt should Officially apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

[@jj6407]

No

[@stephenwright8824]

Maybe after they apologise for the Bloody Sundays of 1922 and 1970. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

[@extraterrestrialtech]

The invention of COMPUTER... All videos of this channel are awesome! But I was especially waiting for newsthink analysis for such great subject..

[@davidmacphee8348]

She is Fantastic and does it all with no help and all by herself. Cindy is the GREATEST!

[@extraterrestrialtech]

@@davidmacphee8348 really!

[@akshathnair6925]

Not many know but there is a movie of him portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch

[@Uncle228]

Worst part about this is that people will still think he deserved this to this day

[@Ryan-ps5xc]

Every school in every country should have a statue of him in the lobby. If it wasn’t for him, the allies would have lost the war, and Germany would’ve won. I world owes him our lives.

[@alftitolito]

Don't mention Jobs and Gates in the same sentence as Turing. Turing was an actual genius

[@thorntontarr2894]

After all of your effort, you failed to mention Tommy Flowers who build an electronic computer called Colossus based on Turing's work.

[@Youbeentagged]

Now I'm gonna rewatch the imitation game a 6th time

[@muhammednabasheerbasheer7899]

A genius who revolutionized the word civilization that we know today.

[@delianaw7051]

The Enigma Creator Grandmaster Alan Turing😍😍😍

[@campfireeverything]

This whole channel is so freaking good 🙏

[@oppoandroidf1174]

😔😔😔...Msy He Rest In Peace...🙏🙏🙏

[@per619]

Nice job on an interesting little known story. Kudos.

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

Alan: You like this device I invented? Britain: WE LOVE IT! Alan: Also I’m gay Britain: I’m sorry but you can no longer exist, please leave.

[@texaspatty4697]

😭

[@misiocsl]

The one that cracked The Enigma were polish mathematicians. They actually did it twice. It was Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki. THANK YOU.

[@themostgraciousqueenmarger2015]

Thanks for posting this!

[@otherworld11]

Unjust on an epic scale.

[@armored_variant9740]

Yeah. when a person is dead that's the time you say sorry😒

[@tiffles3890]

> Implying Steve Jobs and Alan Turing are in the same category lol I guess the scriptwriter thought something like "let me take a couple of famous computer guy names and slap them together".

[@arjunarun9147]

go back to 4chan weirdo

[@lilyerrington4556]

we have a picture framed of him in my school reception, i live in bletchley milton keynes (where the code breakers were) and our schools based on them, my school group/house name is enigma and we also have turing, lorenz and colossus

[@batwing-plays]

Enigma code was cracked by Polish matematicians: Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki.

[@DB-xp9px]

agreed - they don't get nearly as much credit for laying down the foundation the brits built on. plenty of credit to go around, including those that lost their lives retrieving the daily code books.

[@exynosnemea2937]

Love watching these videos

[@RFED2O]

Seriously !! Exactly what kind of a brain did Alan actually have !!!! The mind boggles

[@marianobisinella1196]

Thank you Mrs Cindy Pom

[@arxangelmixael]

thank god he gave us the fringe typewriter, at least he did something for enigma

[@rabbit251]

There's a whole movie about Turing. Don't need to watch a mini-doc about him. But Britain should make statutes of him. He hopefully will be remembered like Thomas Becket. As the movie on Becket points out, no one remembers the name of the lord that prosecuted Becket. We only remember Becket. No one knows the names of paltry, and now despised men who persecuted Turing, but we remember Turing. And from both of these they had a great impact on society for the good. We honor their sacrifice.

[@user-nx3zm3ln7m]

If i remember the story well, Enigma was cracked first in 1932 by some polish mathematicans and cryptologists. They were also working on the case since 39 when they escaped from Poland. They gave Turing and British team, a lot of important informations about the code and were all the time involved in the process. A lot of people connect cracking Enigma only with this one person and i think its not fair to the rest of great minds who made quite the same amount of work and effort. It was a team work of many people from many countries.

[@atadbitahistory9660]

Yes and no, while *some* smaller messages could be cracked at this time, it was Alan Turing who A. Pioneered the computing Science as a whole, he was the one who designed the Bombe, this used Cribs ( words that would be commonly used ), to determine the particular settings of the code that day, which then could break any code that day ( there were about 200 of these archives working ). What even Turing had problems with though, what determining the U-Boat attacks, which I believe was due to the settings being designed completely differently from the rest of the messages being transmitted. While technically messages were being decrypted previously, it was still Turing who designed the technology which would decipher all of it.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

Terrible how Turing was treated by the very country he had saved! Because of Turing, I'm learning HTML to become a hacker. Not sure which type I want to be, perhaps a grey hat hacker like a grey Jedi.

[@urbienbryllejamellep.2318]

Alan Turing was part of our history of computer programming subject, Philippines Engineering subject

[@happybear3706]

You forgot Tommy flowers, John Tillman and Bill Tutte

[@kurtgandenberger6139]

alan we are so sad and hope see you in the next life.

[@AzharAliajju]

Tesla - God of electricity 🙌🏻 Turing - God of computers🙌🏻

[@soccerparadise374]

The world gives miserable lives to geniuses and regrets, awards and acknowledges after their death-Ah ....will this malpractice ever change????.respect for turing

[@OleLeik]

It should be noted that his contributions to the British codebreaking efforts were not known nor acknowledged until the declassification of Turing’s work in the 1970s. Quite frankly: If the fellow had not gotten prosecuted for being gay after the war and (possibly) committed suicide thereof - He would still be un-known and un-acknowledged outside the circles of scientists and history buffs, like so many of his fellow codebreakers.

[@TGREAT1]

3:00 when I was innocent kid they tried to make me believe that jews are bad but now I clearly see they're beating me bad as hell when I'm making huge progress now I clearly know what it was all about.. Hellish jealous people bully , #great people!

[@ashleysolisyt]

i find it so sad that he was shut out all because he was gay

[@BenjaminKeller]

That guy looks like Granit Xhaka 😂😂

[@sandyz1000]

The very first artificial intelligence. That is why Turing award is prestigious for the fellow

[@bee8470]

who watched The Imitation Game

[@nader3ttia]

your voice from heaven, thank you from a Genius Betrayed by the Country He Saved, Yet again!

[@annamosier1950]

very good work

[@AurumDiscipline]

0:10 let's not forget the Poles who actually cracked it first

[@ArmedSpaghet]

Werent they mentioned in the video?

[@xhsheneehshsksbh3572]

Ofc he was gay. He was British... It would be foolish to expect anything else

[@stellarhorizons01]

Hey Pom, love your work! Would you please make a video about Carl Sagan as well? I have been anticipating it as if that would always be the next one.

[@victorstalick5528]

He couldn't have invented his "computer" without a knowledge of binary code..... invented by Claude Shannon.

[@TheOnlyBiodude]

Well sorry doesn't cut it. It will never be good enough.

[@AcidiFy574]

it's disgusting the people who harp on about morality are truly the most evil ones

[@TB-bb6kb]

Polish team of Enigma code breakers - Marian Rejewski - Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski were able to read German messages in 1932 with help of mashine called “ Bomba “ ( in Polish Bomba is synonymous with eureka ) . All that was passed to British in Aug 1939 two weeks before second war erupted Polish accomplishment layed fundation for furder work at Bletchley Park . British excluded Polish team from their work to assign all credits to themselves . SHAME

[@himanshuk1834]

Oh dear Alan, the world would have been a much better place, if only you were born on the better side of the world.

[@randomthings7875]

Love your videos. I visit here everyday waiting for new video update.

[@joanpd]

Imagine if he lived longer. What new things would be discovered for humanity?

[@ArmedSpaghet]

Hawking of their time.

[@sebastianluraniec1489]

Eh Who really cracked the Enigma code? When war broke out and Poland fell, it was the work of Rejewski and the Polish Cypher Bureau that led the way for Alan Turing and his team to not only decipher Enigma messages but also to build the Colossus machine at Bletchley Park that would break the much more sophisticated German Lorenz cipher

[@dirkkruisheer]

Thank you

[@stephenchandler6738]

I am very pleased and proud that this man was British gay and a genius and even thought its been connected with the tradgedy of his death I think the apple logo is a happy coincidence because I believe it was an accidental death not suicide ❤️

[@Tho-ugh-t]

Poland: First time buddy?