If I were to ask you to name the two men whose actions, above those of all others, decided the outcome of the Second World War, who would you name? Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill, perhaps; or Dwight D Eisenhower and Herman Goering. How about if I added the condition that both these people were directly involved in breaking the codes of the Enigma Machine? Well, in that case you'd name Alan Turing of course, and Marian Rejewski.
Arguably, you would be correct. The latter, a Polish mathematician working for the Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau) was the first to open a breach in the ‘impenetrable' cipher engine, reconstructing its internal wiring, while the former – quite rightly – has been widely credited with actually breaking the Enigma, solving its complex coding system and therefore giving the Allied nations a way to gain invaluable insight into the plans and operations of the German military.
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