Bletchley park assignment.

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Khobaib Anwar 10.6

Bletchley park assignment

1. The people called to Bletchley Park were mainly very intelligent people from the leading universities in Britain. These people, along with others who were able to solve newspaper puzzles the fastest had one main aim:

To crack the ‘ENIGMA’ code.

 Bletchley Park was organized into huts; the information in hut 3 was usually nonsense.

Intelligence officers had to translate the German, Italian or whatever language it was. Hut 6 was the main decoding area where there could be a lot of words, a few or even a few letters. The messages went from hut 6 to hut 3, then to MI6 who then sent the message to the London headquarters.

There were young girls around the age of eighteen also working in Station X doing ‘donkey work’. They were old enough to marry and work so they were used to do simple activities such as cleaning things up.

The huts in Station X had to be manned as the amount of messages coming in started increasing. The shifts changed three times in the day. This was a very important role because the head had to decide the importance of a message and do it quickly. In 1940 more advisors were sent in from the war office and air ministry.

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2. Bletchley Park was able to break the German enigma codes mainly because of the help of Poland, careless German operators and some intelligent people. First of all the help from Poland was invaluable because if Station X had not known what the enigma looked like then they would have certainly had an almost impossible chance of breaking the codes. Fortunately for the allies a Polish spy who was working in the German army supplied the Poles with documents, settings and instructions for use. This was enough help for the Polish to make two copies of the enigma machine. ...

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