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members—20 to 25 mathematical crypt-analysts, probably the same
number of linguistic crypt-analysts, the rest clerks and support staffers.
Later it grew to 300.
Heavy bombings—the workers had to spend nearly every night in air-
raid shelters—forced still another move in the summer of 1944. The
linguistic branch moved 150 miles southeast to Hirschberg in Silesia,
where they installed themselves in another school; the mathematicians
moved to the nearby town of Hermsdorf. The odyssey of Pers z did not
end even there, however. In February, 1945, the advance of the Russians
compelled each group to move
about 150 miles west. The mathematicians evacuated to Zschepplin
Castle, near Eilenburg, about 80 miles south of Berlin. The linguists,
joined by a few mathematicians to strip current superencipherments,
moved into a wing of Burgscheidungen Castle near Naumburg, northwest
of Wiemar. Here, as wartime guests of the Count von der Schulenburg
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