Bletchley Park and The Enigma Machine

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World War 2 was one of the first wars where technology took affect on who was going to win the war and who was going to loose.  The Germans perfected the single most important aspect of wining a war and that was secret communication.  They came up with the enigma machine in order to turn all their communication into code so that it was impossible to read.  The allies had to come up with their own way to combat this.  So in response to the war Bletchley park was opened as a code deciphering location.  This is where the famous mathematician Alan Turing and his brilliant co-workers built The Bombe and Colossus. The two machines that could determine what the German messages were saying.  I did a lot of research on this topic in order to write a research paper for my English class over the last month.  I found the topic to be very interesting to read about and I am glad that I chose it.  It is probably one of the hardest topics I could have chosen though.  There is almost no information out there on what happened.  Just to be able to work there all 10000 employees had to sign an act saying that they would never talk about what was going on behind the fences of the park.  It then took 30 years for them to come out and say "okay, you can now tell your family what you did during World War 2."  It is because of the 30 years of silence that there is no information.  A lot of people never actually decided to come out and say anything or they were dead by that point.  I would advise that if you want to do a written report of this topic do not take the task lightly.  You are going to read a lot of papers that will have almost the exact same information in them.  However if you like to read journals for fun and the knowledge they hold I highly recommend doing some searches on Alan Turing, Bletchley Pack, and the Enigma Machine.