Bletchley Park huts where British mathematicians cracked Nazi Enigma code to be rebuilt

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The huts at Bletchley Park where British mathematicians cracked the Nazi Enigma code are to be rebuilt.

The trust has raised the £2.4 million required to restore the huts where codebreakers led by Alan Turing shortened the war by up to two years.
'Raising these funds has been a race against time to save the Huts from dereliction,' said Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust.
The huts at Bletchley Park were where British mathematicians worked in secret to crack Germany's Enigma code, using desks, blackboards, and feeding their results through primitive mechanical computers that are the grandfathers of the machines we use today.

Working in utmost secrecy, codebreakers at Bletchley Park cracked Germany's 'unbreakable' Enigma code - and being able to 'listen in' on Nazi communications helped to shorted World War II

The World War II Enigma decoding machine at Bletchley Park: The Nissen huts were filled with young workers intercepting and decoding German transmissions

Manchester don Turing devised an 'electromechanical' machine that could break the code used by the German Navy.
Heis widely seen as the father of modern computing - but was persecuted for his homosexuality, and committed suicide in 1954 by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
'The huts were very basic, filled with desks, blackboards - and felt university-like,' says Sinclair McKay, author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.
'The huts were where all the amazing flashing moments of insight happened, though - often with no machinery whatsoever.'

Huts at Bletchley Park were where many of the moments of inspiration occurred that led to Britain cracking the German Enigma code - but today one of the main huts stands derelict and two are in need of restoration

Alan Turing is widely seen as the father of modern computing - but was persecuted for his homosexuality, and committed suicide in 1954 by eating a cyanide-laced apple

'Bletchley Park was the dawn of the computer age. It's an amazing insight into how computing began - in rooms filled with desks and paper and blackboards. That's why this restoration is crucial'

Those huts were terribly cold in winter - most people wore mittens. They had sqeaky lino, and dozens of people worked side by side on desks.
Messages were passed between huts down a tunnel on a tray pushed along with a broom handle.
'It was run by MI6 - but actually the people working inside those huts were civilians,' says McKay.
'Many were mathematicians drawn from universities. They would get their summons, but instead of reporting for the front line, they would report for duty at Bletchley Park.

'Bletchley Park was the dawn of computer age,' says McKay, 'For young people especially, it's an amazing insight into how the Nazis were outwitted and how computing began- in rooms filled with desks, and paper and blackboards, without a machine in sight. That's why this restoration is crucial.'

The Abwehr Enigma decoding machine at Bletchley Park: The electromechanical methods of 'cryptanalysis' developed by the team at Bletchley Park led to the computer age

Jean Valentine operated one of Alan Turing's Bombe machines used to crack the German Enigma code - the machines broke 3,000 enemy messages a day and are said to have shortened the war by two years