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Richard Thurston ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 13 May 2008 17:53 BST

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Britain owed much of its success in breaking the Enigma code to Polish mathematicians, who managed to reconstruct the Enigma machine and pass on their knowledge.

The Poles had broken the Enigma code as far back as 1932, when the machines were undergoing military trials.

Three of the most outstanding Polish mathematicians — Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rozycki — have been commemorated with this memorial next to the cottage where the first Enigma code was broken.

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