Campaign for Recognition of Polish Enigma Codebreakers (fwd)

Saturday, 20 October 2012

Campaign for Recognition of Polish Enigma Codebreakers
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Poland's parliament has launched a campaign to restore justice to the 
Polish men and women who first broke the Enigma codes, but who have tended 
to be overlooked with the limelight going to the Bletchley Park 
codebreakers.

Historians tend to agree that World War II was shortened in Europe by 
perhaps two years due to the Allies' ability to eavesdrop on German coded 
communications. However, thanks to media exposure - in the blockbuster 
movie Enigma, Alan Turing Year and even I-Programmer's coverage of Queen 
Elizabeth's visit to  Bletchley Park - credit for cracking the codes is 
often accorded only to the work of British cryptologists..../snip/


http://en.poland.gov.pl/Marian,Rejewski,Jerzy,Rozycki,and,Henryk,Zygalski,Enigma,or,the,Biggest,Secret,of,World,War,II,1978.html

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/4958-campaign-for-recognition-of-polish-enigma-codebreakers.html

http://www.i-programmer.info/images/stories/News/2012/OCT/B/polishcodebreakers.jpg
http://www.i-programmer.info/images/stories/News/2012/OCT/B/bomba.jpg
http://www.i-programmer.info/images/stories/News/2012/OCT/B/polishenigma.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5nK_ft0Lf1s