Bletchley Park

Civilian and service personnel work together at code-breaking. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

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Staff hard at work at Bletchley Park. The people who worked here did so under conditions of utmost secrecy, and with little idea of how their work slotted into the grand scheme of things. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Code-breaking personnel at Bletchley Park, 1943. (Photo by Bletchley Park Trust/SSPL/Getty Images)

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A photograph of Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing (1912–54). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A female computer programmer demonstrates a new computer in the 1960s.

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Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg, 1933. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German 'Enigma' and 'Lorenz' codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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Bletchley Park

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Bletchley Park codebreakers honoured

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Q&A: Which of Bletchley Park’s decodings was most significant?