TheCodeBreakers
States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela. Not every code of
every country was always read, but the solution of the codes of 34
nations of the earth suggests that, whether or not the Pers z
cryptanalysts' life was "worth anything," the reckoning cannot involve
whether they had done their duty. That they had.
In the nightmare totalitarian jungle that was Nazi Germany, the
bigwigs of National Socialism consolidated their positions by building up
personal power structures. Extra power could come from the knowledge
obtainable through intercepting communications. Thus it was that a few
weeks after Hitler appointed Hermann Goring as Air Minister in his new
government in 1933, the fat ex-air ace established an eight-man unit in
his Air Ministry to do as much intercepting as possible. He called it the
Forschungsamt ("Research Office"), but its research was highly
specialized