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Old 25th May 2020, 9:33 pm   #17
dave walsh
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Default Re: Code-Breakers:Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

On viewing this again-

1. Craig that story about minimal clothing chimes with the comment in the
Documentary that the Nazi mind set meant that anyone different to a perceived
normality was excluded, while the British had a tradition of eccentricity that
often included brilliance! The Nazi attitude isolated them from that resource, plus their coding
groups fought each other. They would certainly have gone in for more exposed bodies, only
privately [like the Victorians] but it was 1940!

2. I noticed the comment that the Russians were suspected of using Lorenz
after the war which, again, explains Churchill wanting to destroy all the
physical evidence and keep the encoding info under wraps in case of a Nuclear Attack
threat. The Chain Home listening stations here on the South Coast [eg Wartling] were quickly
converted into a defence against our former allies in the 1950's. Some people were reluctant to
talk about that just twenty years ago. It was all still "Need to know". It's clear that Winston
quickly recognised the threat from the Soviet block as he had with Germany in the 1930's.


3. We've discussed variations of the AR88 [AR80] on here recently and it's
predecessor the AR77. Interesting but not at all similar. I presume the first
on site Bletchley Radio Listening Room [shown at the beginning] was actually a
reconstruction? There was an AR77 in the corner. Is that accurate? It fits in with the time-line!

Dave W

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