The Imitation Game : Film

[Heathrow Harry]

that's the film - it was pretty clear that a number of people at Bletchley and elsewhere were gay but no - one was interested in pursuing it

It was 7 years after the war that they prosecuted him

[Buster Hyman]

Whilst we're drifting, I distinctly remember seeing a historical documentary about how the Americans captured that U-boat.....

[oldmansquipper]

Filmed (in part, at least,) at RAF Bicester - Now Bicester Heritage . The old Parachute section was used as one of the `huts`


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I just hope they can see fit to let us keep our glider there ...at an affordable price!!!

[Wander00]

Film was U-571, and the British guy who actually did the deed persuaded the producers to put a footnote at the end of the movie that said the film was based on his taking the Enigma machine off U-110

[MAINJAFAD]

The US Navy did capture a U-boat plus all the coding equipment/books and did sail it back to the USA (U-505). Adm. Ernest King went nuts over the US Task group commander not sinking the thing after they got the Enigma stuff off.

[Tankertrashnav]

a whole pool of immense talent that was denied to the Germans due to ideology

It wasn't always the case. The Germans created a team of expert printers from Jews taken from various concentration camps, notably Sachsenhausen, to work on Operation Bernhard, the plot to forge millions of pounds worth of Bank of England notes with a view to destabilising the IUK currency. It had been a fact that in pre-war Germany Jews were very prevalent in the printing trade. With the offer of regular food and good living conditions it would have been strange if those offered a chance to work on the project had not seized the opportunity enthusiastically.

Given then that the Nazis were prepared to be pragmatic and put ideology to one side if Jews could offer scarce skills, I would be surprised if at least a few top Jewish mathematicians had not been involved on the German side working on the creation of the Enigma code.