The Enigma Machine: The Totally, Definitely, Absolutely Unbreakable Sequence of German War Codes

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[martijnb]

I highly appreciate your emphasis on the Polish contribution. It is often overlooked, and not only in the breaking of the Enigma code. This is partly because Poland ended up at the wrong side of the iron curtain, which was the reason the Dutch government advised against granting the Military Willemsorder to the Polish parachute army for their role during the battle for Arnhem. Only in 2006 this honour was granted by queen Beatrix.

[renrutmat]

Don't forget Tommy Flowers who designed and built Colossus at Bletchley Park. The world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer Colossus would be used to decipher Enigma messages as well as the more complex Lorenz cipher used by German High Command. Tommy Flowers didn't get much recognition after the war.
Worth while looking him up. Also what happened to Colossus after the war.

[WBaj]

Turing was a genius but few mention Flowers. Flowers was a telecom engineer who built the computers, often using his own money. He struggled after the war and due to Secrets Act could not discuss the great work he did and use it to get work

[dangermouse]

Churchill's response to the request from Bletchly was said to have been a very simple
"Give them whatever they want"

[pamelamays]

Suggestion: The Navajo Wind/Code Talkers of WW2. They developed a code based on their native language which was unbreakable.

[SteveMHN]

It always makes my blood boil when I think about how Turing was treated after the war.

[Darren-vhlk]

One of the best Megaprojects I've ever watched. I cried at the end of The Imitation Game the first time I watched it. The way Mr. Turing was treated by his own country was criminal.

[bryandavies]

So glad you gave the Poles and Welchman their due credit.

[alanhindmarch]

Alan Turing is one of my Heroes. I know he didn’t fight as such, but through his Intellect and his great mind, he did save thousands of lives without praise or recognition. Only to be victimised for his sexual orientation.

[andljoy]

No letter could encrypt as itself that was the most important thing. That bug, changed everything.

[theangelbelow]

R.I.P Alan Turing, you were born at the right and the wrong time, you helped save thousands of lives, but would ultimately be condemned by the people you helped.

[ignitionfrn]

1:35 - Chapter 1 - The enigma machine
3:45 - Chapter 2 - Background
4:45 - Chapter 3 - The unbreakable enigma machine
5:35 - Mid roll ads
6:55 - Chapter 4 - The 1st bombes
8:55 - Chapter 5 - Lucky breaks
11:30 - Chapter 6 - The expanding bombes
14:00 - Chapter 7 - Impact on the war
15:55 - Chapter 8 - The human touch

[redstonewisard]

There is a book called "The Code Book" by Simon Singh, that has some really informational pictures about how the dials work.

[a.]

To Allen Turing, the inventor of the modern day computer and quite possibly the world's first hacker. RIP and thank you.

[Flameboar]

Thank you! The contributions of the Polish code breakers is barely mentioned in other stories of the Enigma machine.

[MrSTSIRO]

I love all of Simon’s (And his crew) channels. It always astounds me the thoroughness of the topic being presented. They always give credit to the lesser known individuals that play a critical part in whatever topic they instruct on. My children love the videos. Keep up the good work. Simon and his crew deserve a Netflix show.

[grantjohnson]

15:07 "The formidable Bismarck was *finally* sunk..."
Simon, I don't think that's the best choice of words for sinking a ship on its first combat patrol.

[morteASH]

Lets skirt around the contribution that a British General Post Office engineer made to the effort, Tommy Flowers was instrumental in building the colossus machine.
An engineering genius that took in the ideas of Alan Turin and made them reality. As we all know Scientists think of an idea, Engineers make them come true.

[hakanl]

Allan Turing will be on the new £50 note that will be released 23 June 2021.

[trj]

Although Alan Turing is most closely associated with the Enigma Machine, a significant detail left out of this episode was that the machine was designed by the brilliant German engineer Arthur Scherbius. An amazing dude.