June 26th, 2016

Recalling how Polish cryptographers cracked Enigma, paving the way for Turing

http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/virtualbp/poles/poles.htm

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John Larsen

@adactio Should our tolerance for others depend on what they’ve done for us in the past?

Victoria Pawlik

Also want to mention no planepilots for fighter planes in WW2 if not for polish pilots… twitter.com/adactio/status…

Jeremy Keith

@jrlarsen Should rhetorical questions ever be asked?

John Larsen

@adactio They’re just one way of injecting ideas into a discourse. I’m just mulling over the notion of “Don’t abuse the Polish because…”

Jeremy Keith

@jrlarsen Gotta be honest: I wasn’t looking for any discourse. I was genuinely recalling the Polish contributions to Bletchley Park.

John Larsen

@adactio Cool. Sorry to hang my musings on your tweet. All the best.

Charles Roper

@adactio Mustn’t forget 303 Squadron either. rafmuseum.org.uk/research/onlin…

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