Following his excellent talk last year on the history of the Government Code and Cypher School and Bletchley Park as its WWII war station, Mike Barbakoff returns with a remarkable story of the first Enigma Codebreakers.
Most people associate Bletchley Park with the original breaking of the German Enigma enciphered messages in WWII. In fact, the first to break Enigma was the Polish Cipher Bureau in 1932.
The Poles were the first to recognise that with machine created ciphers, you need mathematicians. In 1931 they hired three brilliant young men from Poznan university. One of them, Marian Rejewski, broke Enigma in 1932 using the mathematics of probability. “The First Enigma Codebreakers” tells their remarkable story from 1931 to VE Day.
Refreshments will be available after the talk. These are free, but a small contribution to the Friends is always welcome.
This talk is free to Friends of the Cemetery.