Fwd: How the Nazis' codebreaking success nearly cost us the war

Friday 01 July 2016

How the Nazis' codebreaking success nearly cost us the war,
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by Jonathan Dimbleby


- Jonathan Dimbleby says Nazi codebreaking led to crushing security
   breach
- Believes failure to protect British communications is 'widely
   overlooked'
- Said Bletchley Park overshadows the success of Nazi codebreakers

By Josh White For The Daily Mail

The success of the Bletchley Park codebreakers has become a =91myth=92 th=
at
overshadows how extensively the Nazis intercepted Allied messages during
the Second World War, Jonathan Dimbleby has claimed.

By 1942 the Nazis had broken the code Britain used to communicate with
the vital Atlantic convoys, a devastating security breach that =91nearly
cost us the war=92, the broadcaster argued.

He was discussing his most recent book, The Battle Of The Atlantic: How
The Allies Won The War, at the Chalke Valley History Festival, sponsored
by the Daily Mail.

Dimbleby spoke about the =91myth=92 of Bletchley Park, the codebreaking u=
nit
in Buckinghamshire where Alan Turing and other maths geniuses worked.

He acknowledged the importance of its role in cracking the Nazi=92s Enigm=
a
code. But he continued : =91More important than Bletchley Park was the
Admiralty=92s failure to protect British communications. That failure has
been widely overlooked.=92

Dimbleby, who presents Any Questions, reminded the audience how the
oft-overlooked Atlantic naval campaign was of =91critical importance to
the outcome of the war=92.

ut he cited secret British reports highlighting the =91disturbing and
important=92 success of German interceptions of Allied messages, which wa=
s=20
only discovered after the defeat of Hitler.

=91It is of great significance, in my view, that the British were
completely simultaneously unaware that the Germans were able to read our=20
communications,=92 he said.....


- "The Battle Of The Atlantic : How The Allies Won The War"
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    Jonathan Dimbleby


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3669059/How-Nazis-codebreaking-su=
ccess-nearly-cost-war-Jonathan-Dimbleby.html#