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[FYI] Zur Geschichte von ULTRA
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- From: "Axel H. Horns" <axel.horns@fitug.de>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:35:24 +0100
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http://www.jpost.co.il/Features/Article-16.html
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The Code-Breakers
By ABRAHAM RABINOVICH
(February 3) -- Two Israelis who took part in World
War II's 'Ultra' project recall how Britain's
successful effort to crack Germany's top-secret
military codes played a decisive role in the defeat
of the Nazis.
The message in German that passed
across Walter Ettinghausen's desk
was one of tens of thousands he had
seen since arriving in Bletchley Park,
80 kilometers north of London, early
in the war. It seemed inconsequential
in the context of the cosmically secret
work being carried out there, but the
message contained a brief phrase that
he would still recall more than half a
century later.
[...]
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