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'Secrets Of WW 2 Cracking The Enigma Code' (Full 1998 VHS Tape Documentary)
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"Secrets Of WWII: Cracking The Enigma Codes," provides an in-depth look into the military and war aspects of World War II. The documentary covers the fascinating story of how the Enigma codes were cracked, providing a new perspective on the war effort. It was transmitted on a top-secret device capable of scrambling a message millions of different ways. The German High Command was certain it was impossible to break. But luckily, the Allies did crack the Enigma codes, helping to shorten the war by 2 years and save countless lives. How did the Allied codebreakers decipher the unbreakable code? And why did their amazing accomplishment, Cracking the Enigma Codes, remain highly classified for nearly thirty years? Find out how a tool originally designed for business became the world’s most sophisticated military coding machine. Meet the mathematicians, chess masters and eccentrics of Britain’s top-secret Bletchley Park – and see how they overcame incredible odds to break Enigma. Examine a recreation of the first electronic programmable computer and find out how it was able to read Hitler’s most closely guarded commands and learn how Allied codebreakers were crucial to victories in the Pac…
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Time Life
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Bletchley Park, Enigma, Enigma Machine, Codebreaking, Codebreakers, WW2, Second World War, World War II, 1940s, 40s, 20th Century, History, Buckinghamshire, Nazi Germany, SOE, Archive Footage, VHS, VHS Tapes, VHS Rip, VHS Cassette, UK, Voiceovers, Alan Turing, Colossus, Dispatch Riders, Gordon Welchmann, Dilly Knox, Joan Clarke, Ciphers, Artificial Intelligence, Ciphering, Espionage, Spies, Cryptology, Secret Messages, Ian Fleming, Milton Keynes, The Allies, Allied Forces, D-Day, General Bernard Montgomery, Winston Churchill, The Bombe, Supercomputers, Military, German, Poland, Polish, Documentaries, Documentary, Normandy, Omaha, Juno, Sword, Sword Beach, Juno Beach, Omaha Beach, North Africa
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