TURING: the man who cracked the nazi code | History Calls | FULL DOCUMENTARY

In a quiet little town by the name of Bletchley, it was there, that during the Second World War, a huge game of chess was played out, the aim of which was to crack the encoded communications of the German army.
In this game which changed the course of history, the key player was an eccentric homosexual, a non-conformist mathematician and keen cross-country runner with a taste for self-mockery: Alan Turing.
The unlikely trajectory of this genius, entwined despite himself with world events, allow us to take a fresh look at a whole section of the history of the Second World War, and discover that a close link exists between the Allied victory and the invention of the computer.
Documentary: The man who cracked the nazi code
Directed by: Denis van Waerebeke
Production: Les Films d'Ici

[@alancooper9632]

It was a different time back then but he was treated absolutely disgustingly. A true hero who saved so many lives during the war.

[@Volcano-Man]

Turing DID NOT BREAK ENIGMA! That had been done in the early 1930's by three Polish mathematicians working in total secrecy. Their names: Marian Rejewski, Rejewski Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski developed a technique using cardboard cutouts to break the code. When war broke out, they escaped via Romania to France and realising that France was in a precarious position, offered their work to the British. Realising that the Poles had handed them a solution, it was quickly realised that the process had to be speeded up. Enter Turing who along with a team of mathematicians then developed the mathematics that enabled electro-mechanical methods to be constructed - the Bombes. They 'read' the traffic off teleprinter tape, would over-run, the wheels had to be wound back by hand until the setting was found. Then the actual message could be read, decrypted, translated from German in to English.

[@will-i-am-not]

Yes that's true, they risked their lives and passed the info to France and England, where it eventually ended up at Bletchly park, what he did was build a machine to decipher and read it quickly

[@carbidegrd1]

Also, todays computers can solve enigma in seconds, not a year! BS

[@dogman2387]

Actually, Marian Rejewski had already built the first electro-mechanical Bombe machine to break Enigma, but then destroyed it to keep it from the Germans when they invaded Poland. Turing got Rejewski's plans of his original machine and basically just scaled it up to do a lot more in parallel. Also, one of Turing's team mates figured out a way to optimize the machine. I still don't know why Turing seems to get all the credit for this. He was definitely involved, but not the only one.

[@elizabethmartin4328]

Thanx so very much for your information. I read the book "The. Ultra Secret." I shall read it again.

[@MyScubasteve]

@@dogman2387 No he didnt Tommy flowers designed and built it!

[@hond654]

Rajewski from Poland broke it. Turing automated it.

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

As far as I know it were three Polish mathematicians that cracked the commercially available version. Knowhow was shared with the French and Brits by the Poles just days prior to the war. The militairy version of the Enigma had more rotors (higher encryption). A very similar device was made by the Dutch but was rejected in the early 1920's if I remember correctly.

[@gowdsake7103]

the 2 were not the same

[@Michel-r6m]

​​@@gowdsake7103In 1923 a German (Arthur Scherbius) got the patent in hand of the Dutch Enigma machine patented by Hugo Koch in 1919 ( Enigma O.G.). The only thing that was done later to this machine is increase the level of encription. By 1935 the whole of the German army was equiped with these machines. Adjustments to the Enigma were done up till 1944 adding the Uhr. The Poles cracked the machine before the war but the added encryption made Turing realize automation was needed in order to decypher more or less in real time.

[@gowdsake7103]

@@Michel-r6m The Poles had ALREADY developed a machine Turing developed it The bomba, or bomba kryptologiczna (Polish for "bomb" or "cryptologic bomb"), was a special-purpose machine designed around October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma-machine cipher

[@Volcano-Man]

@@gowdsake7103 Tbey were using cardboard cutouts not a machine.

[@GregWampler-xm8hv]

First Alan Turing was a Mathematician and Scientist of the 1st Magnitude and clearly did phenomenal work in the pursuit of codebreaking. However it was a small group of Poles that did it first in the 30's and included their Enigma decryption machine. Turing took in many levels higher in sophistication but I believe in giving people the credit they're due. I also dislike those who attempt to take credit they didn't earn, often by omission like here. Again this is not to take anything away from Alan Turing whom, intellectually speaking, I have the utmost respect for. As far as his private life, that was, or should have been, his business.

[@daleburrell6273]

...THE PROBLEM WAS THAT ALAN TURING WAS SUBJECT TO BLACKMAIL- AS WAS SUMNER WELLES!!! THAT CAN'T BE IGNORED...(!)

[@Volcano-Man]

Turing was NOT a scientist! He was a very clever mathematician; but scientists he was not!

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

Historical accuracy is historically accurate. Excellent.

[@peterlongland6862]

True, however, the breaking of the Enigma code by the Polish meant that the Germans made sure it was way more complicated than the version broken by the Polish.

[@Jahwobbly]

What kind of moral monster needs 70 years to act on an injustice this important. Hah! A posthumous pardon and 70-years late at that. Shameful.

[@jd.3493]

Calm down

[@locoHAWAIIANkane]

Agreed! Totally shameful

[@stephenhosking7384]

The work at Bletchely Park and everyone involved was kept secret until the mid 1970s. While it was unjust for Turing to be persecuted for homosexuality, no-one involved had any idea of his significance and Turing couldn't tell them. Perhaps the complete blanking out of his war record looked suspicious and even counted against him. He wasn't the only one - Tommy Flowers was not to receive any credit for Colossus until the 1970s, and until then the American ENIAC had the record as the "world's first programmible compouter".

[@locoHAWAIIANkane]

@@stephenhosking7384 I understand secrecy was paramount, especially during war time but didn’t people above him know of his work?

[@stephenhosking7384]

@@locoHAWAIIANkane Good question! Turing, like most staff at Bletchely Park, left in 1945 and moved to other careers and locations, with their record from 1939 to 1945 just a blank. "Involved in cracking Enigma and winning the Battle of the Atlantic" wasn't on anyone's resume. Turing was a lone operator after the war, finding temporary positions in academia - those "above him" would have had no knowledge of his wartime exploits. As I pointed out, Tommy Flowers was also unable to get any recognition for Colussus. It was the same for all of them. Very sad for Turing, but not as unjust as it has been often portrayed.

[@Kalder5]

The British broke the code of Lorenz's machine (geheimschreiber). It was a great success. Why do they boast about breaking the Enigma that the Poles had broken?

[@millaheska3351]

Already by 1932, Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski (plus a team of volunteers) from the University in Poznan (then Prussia) had broken the Enigma code and built the decrypting machines, which they called 'bomba". Yes, it means a bomb. Problem was, that by 1938 Germans realised that someone was "reading" their messages. So, just in case, they modernised Enigmas by adding more combinations on it. And for this, new more powerful machines were necessary. The Poles didn't have anymore sources to build it, so went on looking for help. The British didn't want to hear about helping, as they were more busy seeking appeasement with Hitler, apparently. Eventually, when it all came down to Turing, it was more convenient not to mention that the job was actually done earlier, as British "government" might need to admit that they refused to support their allies (the French were involved, too) in fighting the enemy..? So Alan Turing indeed was doing a job already done by someone else. Cool, but what was the point of discovering the wheel, once it been already discovered?? Waste of time, waste of lives. The Polish only lacked more efficient machine, that's all that needed to be done. Shame that you don't learn the history facts first

[@bruce92106]

One of UKs biggest shames is what they did to Mr Turing! Just a flat out travesty. Tsk! 🙄😕😠

[@ronaldevans5217]

"You would have to add to this immense amarda -- a brain" insults the intelligence of D-Day's managers. If that's your opening then watching this video is unworthy of my time. What Turing did was accelerate the electronic virtualisation of the enigma machine for calculating the internal rotor settings. That feat was incredible but Turing was one among thousands of cryptanalysts.

[@andrzejpopowski7745]

Its not true. Polish matematicians Zygalski, Rejewski and Rozycki broke the Enigma code. Turing only improved the process of decoding it. In fact, Turing didn't find any internal of Enigma, so how could he crack it ?

[@lesart3446]

I heard that the Americans made a film claiming they captured and broke the code.😂

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

If it's a Hollywood biopic, go read the primary sources instead. TRUST me.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Wouldn't surprise me at all. There are also lots of USAmericans who believe they -- single-handedly -- won WW II.

[@MrBothandNether]

The Polish broke enigma first Go read a history book

[@SonderBlack307]

Lets be honest hilter lost because they were fighting two fronts

[@mac4peace]

Don’t forget Elizebeth Smith Friedman.

[@philbrown8099]

I stopped watching this when the word English was used instead of British and commonwealth. History being bastardised to promote the English ego.

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

In the comments there’s too much “We too!” that isn’t documented and thus not provable. If you think the poles or the French did it first, where’s your proof? Cite your sources of information.

[@lighthousephotographybandera]

I wanted to watch a video on the enigma machine, but this is more like a Turing worship video. Fun fact: The Polish had already cracked the Enigma code years before Turing. The Germans kept rebuilding their Enigma machines and changing how they used them, but by the time Turing showed up, the Polish turned over 10 YEARS of notes and work to Turing. He didn't start from scratch. And the machine Turing built wasn't "his machine" - that machine was designed and built by the Polish. Turing merely upgraded it. In fact, the Polish had sent one of those 'Bombe' machines to France along with Enigma machines and their ciphers YEARS before Turing showed up. The movie "imitation game" is a joke that basically tries to make Turing into a demigod. The history in that movie is so perverted that anyone who watches it will have a twisted idea of what actually happened. This video is like the movie. Over selling Turing and leaving out tons of real historical facts to try and make Turing into a super hero or something. Get real. Real historians know that the "theory that saved WWII" wasn't written by Turing. I'm not giving that one away - do your homework and learn the real history instead of this rubbish.

[@kasiorbasior8494]

Yep. Soviets write their history, so Brits do. The first casualty when ego comes is truth.

[@plunder1956]

The work by Bill Tutt was responsible for breaking into the Lorenz Cypher. So Many people had a big impact on the work at Bletchley Park. The impact of sophisticated traffic analysis (a development by another team in Hut 8) deserves a whole program. There were many strands to the signals intelligence approach to beating Germany. Together they utter transformed warfare, and shaped the Cold War after WW2.

[@brianscott5008]

Gordon Welchman monitored German communications and was able to create elaborate maps of communications between German units. Without reading the message he could determine by the volume of communications if the Germans were about to make any major manoeuvres. Traffic Analysis was born. It was so secret that the CIA shadowed Welchman for years after the war. When others began to publish books about the Intelligence Services, Welchman thought about jumping on the bandwagon by writing 'Hut Six'. It didn't go well for Welchman because the CIA were still using his creation. I remember the release in the late 1980's of Spycatcher by Peter Wright caused ructions in the intelligence community. There is also a documentary on KZbin about amongst others, Bill Tutte who in the 1980's was pleased to be awarded a certificate for passing a course in word processing (I think) whilst chuckling to himself at the start of the course when the tutor asked if anyone had any computing knowledge. Tommy Flowers may also have been covered in the same documentary.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

Yes - please do a piece on traffic analysis. This was the key to actually using/validating the ULTRA data.

[@jerryavila1]

The video is very nice but failed to mention that an enigma like machine was sold commercially much before the war to companies that needed to encrypt corporate messages. It had a polish origin and the 3 poles actually tried to tell the Brits about the possiblities but were ignored.

[@Michel-r6m]

There was a Dutch variant as well prior to Enigma.

[@gonzo_the_great1675]

But Turing was not the main driver behind the Colosus. This was Bill Tutte. No mention of him. Also the pre-runner of Colosus was an electromechanical machine designed by Max Newman. Tommy Flowers was brought in to improve on this, but he realised that it could be redesigned using totally electronic methods and radically sped up.

[@stephenhardy312]

It's 'admiralty', not 'admirality'!

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

How admiriable of you to notice. Signed, The Captain of the King's Navy.

[@georgemcaulay6009]

Imagine what this chap could have achieved if they hadn't hounded him to death. Really his name should be up there amongst the Einstein's and all the best. I've watched shows about Bletchley where he's never mentioned. This is an outstanding article

[@Volcano-Man]

What for? He was a mathematician dealing in theoretical mathematics. He developed the mathematics that enabled others to design, and build the electronic circuits for the Bombes. Yes without his knowledge the reading of Enigma traffic would have been virtually impossible. But break it he did not! He was also considered to be a security risk because he would vanish away from the usual haunts of those who were at BP. So much so when the decision was made to develop Colossus, he had no input into that machine - which was designed to break the Lorenz code which used 12 rotors.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

@@Volcano-Man As a 40-year vet of the computer industry, I bet Turing and those with him would have saved us about half of the first 20 years of R&D in large-scale data processing technology. The Bletchley bunch and Tommy Flowers who built Colossus met and solved most of the problems in huge-scale real-time data processing BY 1944!!! They were reading paper tape at 60MPH!!! Imagine a 1980s computer in early 1960: the huge increase in knowledge and technology from computers in industry, academe, and IN CIVILIAN/CONSUMER HANDS starting 20 years earlier? Ha. Oh, wait: they killed him. Or he killed himself cuz he'd had enough of what they'd done to him. Yay, BIGOTRY! [that was satire, OK?]

[@andrewmorton9327]

Every time she says 'English' read 'British'.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

Don't insult the Irish like that.

[@markgarrett8963]

could only stand half of this is that even a human mispronouncing this sloppy script

[@StevenSiew2]

Turing's secret machine is DA BOMBE!!!!!!!

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

S'il vous plaît, Monsieur: LA bombe. Merci boucoup, mon vieil ami. !!Vive l'alliance Franco-Britannique!!

[@GregWampler-xm8hv]

OK a few words mentioning the Poles. I know this is Alan Turing's "show" but maybe 2 sentences on the Poles.

[@harryricochet8134]

Nope sorry, this video is a rainbow mafia revisionist production, truth doesn't matter.

[@emmgeevideo]

There was no mention in this piece of what was done to keep Germany from realizing that its codes had been broken. Part of the feat was the Germans thinking it was inconceivable that anyone could break Enigma. But the Allies couldn't constantly foil the Germans based on reading their codes or someone would have figured it out.

[@BrucePerkins-mc3hp]

True. The allies needed to be selective in their use of intelligence derived from enigma

[@b1r2y3n]

There is only so much that can be covered in less than an hour.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

@@b1r2y3n Pfui - write brief paragraphs, edit for concision, then edit the video for time.

[@zdeneksmietana1126]

Poles brake enigma and when WW2 started handed over their work to French and British so Turing work was based on their work. Read about Marian Rejewski

[@bobsmith3560]

Hordes of soldiers and materials beat the Germans. Hitler's enemies had access to 90% of the world 's manpower and resources. A monopoly on nuclear weapons did not hurt either. The outcome was never in doubt.

[@jennifersun2638]

The first bombs were intended to be used in Germany actually but Hitler committed suicide

[@allegrobrio968]

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the outcome was in doubt. Rather, the efforts of Alan Turing and the team at Bletchley Park hastened the timing of that outcome.

[@WJack97224]

The Poles received an Enigma machine by mistake and disassembled it and mapped it and reassembled it and sent it back to Germany. That info was provided to the Brits. Codes were captured by the Brits from a German submarine. So, Turing had a lot of help.

[@daleburrell6273]

...CAN YOU ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE THAT THE ENIGMA CODE WOULD HAVE BEEN BROKEN WITHOUT TURING'S HELP?! NOBODY CAN DENY THAT TURING DID A HECK OF A LOT MORE THAN HIS SHARE-(!)

[@gowdsake7103]

@@daleburrell6273 EVERYONE at Bletchley did !

[@gowdsake7103]

WOW honestly ? you dont know there was an Army and Luftwaffe and a Navy version. That it was cracked mostly daily without code books on everything but Shark. There were MANY methods used to crack enigma 90 percent was done without any code book. The submarine enigmas were more complicated and harder to crack getting the machine was more important

[@Volcano-Man]

@@daleburrell6273 Absolutely guaranteed. Turing DID NOT BREAK ENIGMA - He and his much ignored team of mathematicians developed the mathematics that enabled engineers to design the circuits that technicians then built, made work and electronically find the key yo the Enigma traffic encryption! 100% provable as the Poles had broken it in thec1930's.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

Oh stop your pseudo-historical fussing: go read about the British crew THAT WENT ABOARD A RAPIDLY SINKING SUB TO LOOK FOR THE DAMN THING. Three Royal Navy sailors boarded an abandoned German submarine (U-559) to retrieve the U-boat's Enigma key setting sheets with all current settings for the U-boat Enigma network; two of them were inside the U-boat, attempting to get out, when it foundered. BOTH DROWNED. Please don't be trivial about ALL the sacrifice made to break these codes.

[@splatten8597]

Typical governments. This is how they treat people

[@willhicks2259]

Well, they've ruined KZbin with temu ads

[@jonss1948]

Something I have always been puzzled by: How is it that Station X did not get an inkling of the assembly of forces by the Germans, for the attack that became known as the 'Battle of the Bulge'?

[@amsmith123]

I heard the Germans kept radio traffic to a minimum, pity they didn't do this the rest of the time.

[@andyc3088]

@@amsmith123 if the Germans had done what you wish. Then the war could have gone on longer and killing more people

[@grahamlait1969]

Station X did get an inkling, indeed more than an inkling, of what the Germans were up to before the Battle of the Bulge. By that stage of the war, the German High Command no longer trusted that their enigma signals were secure. They had no idea how they were being read but they knew enough simply because of the use the allies had obviously made of German signals. So the Germans stopped all enigma traffic for a week before the Battle of the Bulge began and used it as little as possible even before then. At Bletchley they believed that the Germans were up to something, but didn't know exactly what. My uncle was General Bradley's (commander of the American 12th Army) senior signals intelligence officer and knew not only from Bletchley but from the disappearance of all local German signals that the Germans were, indeed, up to something and he warned Bradley. He never blamed Bradley for ignoring the warnings, which were not specific; they couldn't be. Moreover, by that stage of the war, the overwhelming impression among the allies was that the Germans no longer had the resources to successfully mount any kind of major offensive. In fact, of course, this impression was correct. Let's face it: The Battle of the Bulge was a major defeat for the Germans and ensured that they never again had the resources to mount any kind of worthwhile defence in the west.

[@jonss1948]

Thanks for that excellent clarification.@@grahamlait1969

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

@@amsmith123 yes - Wacht Am Rhein orders were hand-deliverd by motorcycle and otherwise. Nazis didn't KNOW their mail was being read, but the ASSUMED so (Gamesmanship 101) US HQ disbelieved their own G2 and got screwed, especially by the large panzers in the woods...

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

I went to Paris, the war museum to see an Enigma machine. The movie The Imitation Game was due to this...Alan Turing with his team and Polish mathematicians cracked it.

[@gowdsake7103]

It was a huge team not 1 person

[@gowdsake7103]

HUNDREDS of people were responsible

[@suminshizzles6951]

The poles cracked it first. This is my view as well. It is not really a view, it is history. Wikipedia even backs us up.

[@reinhard7572]

Minor correction. The Soviets beat Germany. Fact.

[@eddiec4536]

Fantastic history shown here. Thank you England. Thank you for sharing this amazing history.

[@paulstewart6293]

Sometimes I get the impression that the English think Britain is England. The Scots or Welsh don't make that colonial "error". The English still think they run the world.

[@iriscollins7583]

​@user-ky5dy5hl4dThey did not crack the code.

[@kjellg6532]

@user-ky5dy5hl4d Yes, and no. I fully agree that the poles wre in the forfront, but what dis 9000 pepole at Bletschley do? They had to brake the Enigma over and over again, every day a new Enigma day, a new setting to be found. Let’s agree that braking Enigma was a joint effort by the Poles, Turing with his inner circle and all the other workers at Bletchley. Together they broke the Enigma.

[@evanherk]

Romantic exaggeration posthumously fixates on Alan Turing. He was an undoubted genius, but he did not break enigma.

[@thatbeme]

I doubt I could ever be trained to know what Turing knew. He needed to be supported by the world. He was special.

[@paulfletcher-yi2ji]

And never forget his love for his school boy love Christopher,who he named his computer after POOR MAN😢

[@andrewmorton9327]

No, he didn't. That was dreamed up by the movie makers.

[@harryricochet8134]

Yes, because his sexual orientation was so relevant to his achievements unlike the one-dimensional crotch centric degenerates of today. Not.

[@bhineshwartidke4249]

​@@andrewmorton9327 yep, but why would they do so?

[@andrewmorton9327]

@@bhineshwartidke4249 To improve the story.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

@@bhineshwartidke4249 DUH Because HOLLYWOOD. "When the facts and the myth conflict, print the myth." - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (a HOLLYWOOD movie)

[@Dragonblaster1]

Turing was not instrumental l in cracking Enigma. However, with his bombe invention, he automated and speeded it up.

[@tonyclifton265]

This narrator cant pronounce words properly. "Admirality" [35:47 ] for admiralty. and stressing the second syllable of Dönitz, not the first. please learn to read aloud before doing narration. Her prosody is bad too, generally stressing the wrong word in a sentence or phrase

[@tonyclifton265]

@@573lbt yeah could be that. no human could be so sh1t.

[@Mabinogion]

Half way through, I began to wonder if the audio was computer-generated.

[@stephenwright8824]

This sounds like the same AI bot which did the narration on another video about Mr Turing. Do all Zoomers hate the man that much? AI and text to speech narration is cowardly anyway. It's an insult to the memory of Turing. (And I'm not even a Brit.)

[@krukpolny8505]

Enigma Poland 1932. KZbin.

[@johnvaleanbaily246]

Tommy Flower's never did get the recognition he so richly deserved.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

!!! ^^^WHAT HE SAID^^^ !!!

[@doskraut]

What a load of BS, starvation was the key.

[@mahkhi7154]

YOU CAN MAKE COMPUTER LANGUAGES TO BE DECLARATIVE FROM IMPERATIVE. HOWEVER, THAT LANGUAGE WOULD BE VERY LARGE. IMPERATIVE LANGUAGE = SMALL LANGUAGE, THAT CAN DO ANYTHING. DECLARATIVE = LARGE LANGUAGE, CAN ONLY DO A SUBSET OF REAL WORLD PROBLEMS. LANGUAGE NEEDS FURTHER EXTENDING TO CONQUER MORE PROBLEMS.

[@chrishopewynne2845]

suBmarine not sumarine ….dreadful narration.

[@leonardwalton6668]

He looks like BRAINS on The Thunderbirds!

[@philipgreen6085]

I work this chap called Frank in the 70s. He was a cook with the merchant navy. he was sung three times took to the lifeboats he he said they stopped their pay as soon as they took to the lifeboats. His mother knew something was wrong when they stopped her allowance from his pay.,

[@barracuda7018]

Polish Jews cracked the Enigma.....

[@radoxme8426]

I always was kind to the quiet maths geniuses at Shrewsbury. Not like in the imitation game movie where he was nailed into the floor. I was told one was so able he could have gone to Cambridge at 13. Just marking time for five years!

[@MyScubasteve]

He didnt even design or build the machine! Tommy Flowers should have been named father of the computer.

[@Sabotage_Labs]

What the UK government did Turning, after the war, is one of those just horrifying stories that is unimaginable!!! Now, the other part of this story that just fascinates me is this. Turing and his team cracked the enigma code, which in its own rights is beyond all comprehension. Even if you're a world class mathematician it's amazing. The man came up with a machine and built it... In so little time... Unlike any that had ever been made just from the inspiration of his own mind. Yet, after achieving this unthinkable accomplishment, being able to read the enemies coded messages was one thing. The other part that had be considered...and just horrible decisions had to be made... To make sure not to use the information to often or to obviously... Or the enemy would figure it out, change the code process and make this miracle useless. This means, people had information and knew their countrymen could and would die...but had to pretend like they didn't know. Worse...they had to do this for years!!! Imagine that your job every day...to have this information and choose literally who might live and who would die....for the greater cause! I couldn't imagine a more real life hell ..than that! You know cracking this code could and would likely win the war...but only maybe years earlier as opposed to say....in a few months. What a hell to suffer! The last thing about this story is... How much has the advancement of human kind been put behind, due to losing the one of a kind mind like Turing's. It was like a modern destruction of the Library of Alexandria! And all because... Of who he chose to sleep with. I've made this point to a few friends over the years when they talked about fighting for gay rights, in our time. I tell them this story and suggest they have some perspective and maybe realize what their life is today, compared to Alan Turing and what was done to him! One of the greatest minds not only of his time, but of all time!

[@mikedonnarumma5337]

how disgusting and paranoid were the authorities

[@paulhugo2180]

Loads of code breakers in Poland and England could crack the code given enough time (which they didn't have). Turing's computer broke the codes before they were changed consistently over and over.

[@mikeryan3701]

Turing's computer??????

[@operation1968]

I'm not a mathanatian, but I'd wager a guess that the reason why Alan attacked that math problem he learned about in university head on, was because learning all the basic background material for that would make people fundamentally biased in a way. Bined by the rules you would have studied in said material. Having not done that could have given him more 'thinking freedom' so to speak 🤔

[@graywz]

I hate automated synthetic voice translations. This is horrible to listen to. Pronoucing "Admir-al-ity" instead of "Ad-mi-rilty" for Admiralty.

[@Aspectus]

But math is racist 😂😂😂

[@jamesengland9283]

So does that mean the film “imitation game” is inaccurate as it suggests “colossus” was created to break enigma not the new Tuna machine. Or have I got that wrong??

[@TJ-mm4qg]

Bro. The soldiers beat Hitler…. Change your title. Disrespectful to the men who served.

[@stephenhardy312]

The problem of the relationship between 'thought' and "matter" dates back through Descartes in the 17th century and back to Ancient Greece; long before Turing's time.

[@Ken-ck6cz]

He ' thought ' he could like male butts it did ' matter '😂😂

[@YogicBarrister]

Thank you 🙏

[@jamesowens2287]

What about the Irishman. Richard Hayes who cracked a code that Turing and all the others could not.

[@Sabotage_Labs]

If only Alan was a royal or a member of the house of lords, he probably would have had a much longer life.

[@prizecowproductions]

Typical of British Government of the day. This man through his actions and mind at a casual estimate probably saved half a million serviceman. Aussie Jeff Moore

[@johnfox2483]

That's not a "British Government". Enigma cracking was a very top secret even after a war. So a civil court, nor the Police didn't knew they caught a "war hero". And probably his section was disbanded, he had no further protection from military Intelligence.

[@sirderam1]

Well, not the most accurate documentary. No mention that the Poles had already broken the Enigma cypher as early as 1934. Nor any mention that the codebreaking device, the Bombe, was invented by the Poles, not by Turing. He AND his team certainly developed and improved on the Polish method but he didn't invent it. No one at Bletchley was recognised for their work after the war, it was still considered far too secret. Neither Bill Tutte, who reverse engineered the Lorenz machine without ever having seen one, or Tommy Flowers, who built the Colossus computer, were honoured for their work either - although what they did was every bit as important as Turing's contribution.

[@brunosmith6925]

Good programme... pity that the narrator talks to us like we are in kindergarten.

[@kasiorbasior8494]

Soviets write their history, so Brits do. The first casualty when ego comes is truth.

[@azbestusa8107]

it was not him ithere POLISH cryptographers who did it

[@pistolannie6500]

He commited sucd @ 41, I believe...not 43

[@philiphorner31]

Gee today it's 💩 Tin rants heard all over Europe

[@Rugbyman269]

What the hell is an ADMIRALITY , don't they teach English in English schools any more .

[@Sabotage_Labs]

A famous author I believe said, the Americans and British are a common people, only separated by a common language. 😉

[@peterlongland6862]

Stephen Fry was interviewing Steve Jobs and asked him regarding the Apple logo and Alan Turing being poisoned by a half eaten apple. Job's reply was that he only wished it had been the inspiration for the logo but it wasn't. The Apple logo having a bite out of it was so it wouldn't be confused with another fruit such as a cherry. So there is no relationship between the "way"Turing died and the Apple logo, its was pure coincidence.

[@mikewilliams4438]

Is she saying, 'summerine'?😊

[@viswanathanseshadri1047]

How did the Germans (and the Japanese) not realise that their codes had been broken?

[@donglenphillip8887]

Donitz eventually pulled all the U boats from the Atlantic, after several U boats were sunk He suspected that the code was broken.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

@@donglenphillip8887 Allies made VERY selective use of Enigma/Ultra info and went to great lengths to hide it and, when used, to have cover stories for why Allies knew what was up.

[@mikeryan3701]

@@donglenphillip8887 "several"??? It was a lot more than "several". Donitz knew the game was up. He realised that the Allies had the ability to destroy too many of his submarines. Nothing to do with suspecting the code was broken.

[@chrismac2234]

Gordon Welchman. Still written out of history. They've given recognition to a gay autistic man. But Gordon wrote his memoir and told the truth. That will never be forgiven.

[@harryricochet8134]

Now, now, Turing has a double minority platinum victimhood card, don't you know that gives his rainbow mafia followers the right to rewrite history?

[@sharplessguy]

I feel a sense of Kinship for Turing in that after having suffered a stroke I can no longer maintain focus/concentration as I once was able. My loss of memory/mental acuity is devastating to me. I cannot speak for him, but it must have been an unimaginable blow

[@johnmay7774]

......shockingly unjust

[@lenwilkinson672]

Ala n Turin. = a genious whose country’s establishment shit on him. Their gratitude to him for what he did for his country and people..

[@carbidegrd1]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[@jaywinters2483]

Yea,....but I'll bet ya nobody there could have helped me understand my woman.

[@MrMRW14]

Such a disgraceful injustice. Shameful beyond belief

[@mnblkjh6757]

Why didn’t the allies know about Germany’s winter attack plan that lead to battle of the bulge

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

We did !!! But maybe we "forgot" to tell the Americans !!! The problem again involved "Friction" between Montgomery (British Army) & Patton (U.S Army). Clearly Eisenhower putting Montgomery in charge of certain U.S. Regiments, became an issue. That didn't pan out well when the German attack revealed itself to be MUCH stronger that anyone could have imagined, even though we knew such an attack was definitely in the making. Indeed the Allies blundered, at least down on the ground, because they were already busy convincing themselves the Germans were incapable of launching any further serious attacks !!!!

[@stephenhosking7384]

Great question!

[@cowsy99]

Great answer as well!

[@TonyFarley-gi2cv]

The question is did it beat Hitler or did it pull his radio out and start trying to correct his stuff over into yours

[@jrbaretta]

BORING.

[@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj]

😮😮😮😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@Ro-gw1wn]

No mention of Arthur Scherbius the creator of enigma.

[@jackbov123]

Arthur Scherbius

[@bradunruh9188]

One interesting note, several people in high levels were said to be homosexual in years following wwll. They either were jailed long time or suspicious death.

[@F_Tim1961]

or skived off to Russia and drank vodka and were paired off with birds of the same feather .. never to return to old Blighty.

[@gowdsake7103]

To say that Turing cracked enigma as tho it was just him is a gross overstatement

[@Volcano-Man]

And also Totally 1000% (sic) wrong. He was a mathematician and dealt with theoretical mathematics. He was asked to develop the mathematics tbat enable electronic engineers to design and build the electrical circuits that were needed to operate the Bombes!

[@stevejessemey8428]

Can you imagine having Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Ramanujan, and Robert Oppenheimer all together in one room working together as a Team.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

No: Tesla was nutz by the 40s, really nutz; Turing would be dead; Einstein would have been fomenting against the (obvious) success of quantum physics; after the mid 50s Oppenheimer would have been in the political and professional exclusion zone created by Teller and the powermad in DC. Ram might have given it a shot, but alone? And that assumes the Brits would have let him out of India. I HATE counterfactuals, can you see why now?

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Ramanujan? Working together? He was exceptionally talented, but he would be useless in the team: didn't know where he got his insights, and didn't care about proofs.

[@amseek94]

wasaaaaaaaaaaaaasaay too many ads. Removing channel

[@davidhess6593]

I suspect that the Russians may have helped some....

[@PhilipShawn]

UNable w/o the POLES who were essential courageous springboard.

[@roberthuff3122]

Checkout the breaking of the German Lorenz code by Tiltman and Tutte. Easily more magical than the Enigma and Turing.

[@briancooper2112]

He killed himself.

[@johngregory5424]

Persecuted by Christianity.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Debatable.

[@berniefynn6623]

Watson developing the radar was more deserving of praise, turing being homosexual makes him famous, a Navel officer worked out how the Uboats were sinking so many ships of convoys, changes made due to him saw the mostly elimination of the uboats

[@philbrown8099]

Contrary to the ignorance of some, the English were part of the British war effort. They did not “ stand alone” and other parts of these islands were blitzed as well, not just London. It tramples all over the graves of those who gave their lives, commonwealth citizens and all.

[@donglenphillip8887]

Well said ✅

[@DilbertFarnsworth]

Turing, isn't more a story of how one homosexual beat the Nazis

[@9867144706]

HISTORY REPEATING in the MIDDLE EAST 🪖👍