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Dan Snow's History Hit

Codebreaking at Bletchley Park

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

History

4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Bletchley Park, Britain's key decryption centre during WWI, is known for the success of breaking the Nazi Enigma codes - experts have suggested that the Bletchley Park codebreakers may have shortened the war by as much as two years.


David Kenyon is the research historian at Bletchley Park. Recorded at the grounds, David and Dan walk through Bletchley’s latest exhibition, The Intelligence Factory. They uncover hidden stories from the height of Bletchley’s wartime operations and discuss the codebreakers’ significant contribution to the allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.


Produced by Mariana Des Forges

Mixed and Mastered by Dougal Patmore


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1:09.6

Hello everyone, welcome to Downsnow's History. I'm just walking up the hill in a not,

1:15.5

well, it looks like quite a non-descript, at mid-20th century, government facility.

1:21.9

It was the best kept secret in the world during the Second World War.

1:26.1

I am just walking in to Blechleet Park. It's got the train and like thousands of recruits

1:31.8

I arrived at the train just a few, a hundred meters or so to the gates of Blechleet Park.

1:35.4

Some of my friends, lucky talk to Betty Webb, the wonderful veteran of Blechleet Park.

1:40.8

She told me that when she came through this gate, she had to sign the official secret act

1:44.1

immediately before she even knew what she was doing. As you walk in here, I can start to see the

1:48.6

hats, those temporary buildings that were built. That's Hatt 8 in front of me, where they did the

1:52.9

naval enigma, which I'm here to talk about today, battle of the Atlantic, and they made my

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