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A plaque was unveiled at the Liss RBL Club on June 27 in honour of Henryk Zygalski, a Polish-born mathematician and cryptologist who helped break the Enigma code with two colleagues. The Bletchley Park supremo retired and died in Liss, but his work was largely kept secret during his lifetime.

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00:17He was born in Bosnia. His favorite subjects were mathematics and physics. And something new was the Germans
00:25getting ready for the Second World War. Ultra-intelligence was very, very carefully guarded throughout the war,
00:31because the Japanese had adopted the Enigma regime from the Germans.
00:37So the Americans were able to use the Polish methods to track the signal traffic for the Japanese.
00:45The first evidence of the war course. German army signals in North Africa,
00:50and critically, absolutely critically, breaking the German admiralty and U-code signals in the Battle of the Atlantic.
00:59So we were able to read where the U-codes were that were going to intercept the confoy.
01:05So just a reminder, consider to shorten the war by two years.
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