Memorial Marian Rejewski

It is widely believed that breaking the codes of the German Enigma encryption machine was the work of the British secret service and, in particular, the mathematician Alan Turing.

However, in 1932, Marian Rejewski and several colleagues had already deciphered the information sent using the Enigma. Shortly before the start of the Second World War, the Polish secret service shared this knowledge with their colleagues in England and France. However, the Enigma was improved and work on cracking later versions of the Enigma continued at Bletchley Park in Britain.

In September 1939, Rejewski fled via Romania to France and later to England, where he continued to work on cracking the German codes, but strangely enough, he was never recruited by the British code breakers at Bletchley Park. Rejewski died in 1980.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Jan Paulussen
• - https://www.britishpoles.uk/how-the-polish-mathematicians-deciphered-and-handed-over-the-enigma-code-to-french-and-british-allies/