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Behind the Walls:
Fifty miles north of London, on the grounds of a peaceful Victorian estate, the Allies quietly won the "brain battle" of World War II -- the cracking of the Nazi Enigma cipher systems. For decades after the war, no outsiders knew what had gone on at Bletchley Park.
At Bletchley, also known as Station X, members of Britain's Government Code and Cipher School worked furiously to produce ULTRA -- their name for decrypted Enigma messages -- and to break other Axis cipher systems. The effort recruited brilliant cryptoanalysts, mathematicians, linguists, eccentric creative geniuses, and hard working young people from all over Britain. By war's end, over 10,000 people were employed, each committed to the secrecy of Bletchley Park. |