Paul Dabrowa finds declassified documents on Enigma code-breaking in archive | WW2 History
Channel: Paul Dabrowa
Date: 2020-02-10

Paul Dabrowa finds declassified documents in archive | WW2 History 

Paul Dabrowa located world first declassified documents that showed the impact of enigma code-breaking on the Battle of Britain. Originally from ( fair use copywrite ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iO5QnAw-J0&list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4Y2QxGw33vYu3t70CAPV7X&index=68

During an interview with Eric Wink Brown in 2014, he revealed to Paul that the main leaders of the RAF during the Battle of Britain felt that they would have lost the battle if Germany had not invaded Russia. Eric had interrogated Herman Goering at the end of WW2 and confirmed this after Goering commented that Germany was winning the battle. Paul Dabrowa searched the archives and discovered new declassified documents related to this which will be released to the public. 

Enigma:
The main focus of Turing’s work at Bletchley was in cracking the ‘Enigma’ code. The Enigma was a type of enciphering machine used by the German armed forces to send messages securely. Although Polish mathematicians had worked out how to read Enigma messages and had shared this information with the British, the Germans increased its security at the outbreak of war by changing the cipher system daily. This made the task of understanding the code even more difficult.

Turing played a key role in this, inventing – along with fellow code-breaker Gordon Welchman – a machine known as the Bombe. This device helped to significantly reduce the work of the code-breakers. From mid-1940, German Air Force signals were being read at Bletchley and the intelligence gained from them was helping the war effort.

Alan Turing:
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government’s Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out. In 1939, Turing took up a full-time role at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire – where top secret work was carried out to decipher the military codes used by Germany and its allies.

Turing also worked to decrypt the more complex German naval communications that had defeated many others at Bletchley. German U-boats were inflicting heavy losses on Allied shipping and the need to understand their signals was crucial. With the help of captured Enigma material, and Turing’s work in developing a technique he called 'Banburismus', the naval Enigma messages were able to be read from 1941.

He headed the ‘Hut 8’ team at Bletchley, which carried out cryptanalysis of all German naval signals. This meant that – apart from during a period in 1942 when the code became unreadable – Allied convoys could be directed away from the U-boat 'wolf-packs'. Turing’s role was pivotal in helping the Allies during the Battle of the Atlantic.


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