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They were not forgotten. It was inconvenient for the British to acknowledge their debt to the Polish who did all the theoretical lifting that turned cracking En
by fmajid 5y ago
They were not forgotten. It was inconvenient for the British to acknowledge their debt to the Polish who did all the theoretical lifting that turned cracking Enigma into a challenging, but pedestrian engineering effort.
- RachelF 5y agoThey were never forgotten. Even the earliest 1977 BBC account "Still Secret" in "The Secret War" series credited them greatly. Later simplifications, especially Hollywood movies simplified the story for mass-consumption.