TheCodeBreakers
the final analysis to nullity. "As I am accustomed to say," said Schauffler,
"a bridge builder can see what he has done for his countrymen, but we
cannot tell whether our life was worth anything."
Yet they read the secret communications of the British Empire,
Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Vatican,
Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland; Egypt,
Ethiopia; Turkey, Iran, China, Japan, Manchukuo, Thailand; the United
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