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upon the difficulty of the tongue; nothing was paid for English and
French, which they were expected to know anyway. The codebreakers
had to take an examination in the language every four years to prove
their continued competence, and many of them learned four languages,
taking an examination each year and brushing up at the local Berlitz
school for a month before the test. Pers z had experts in the language of
almost every country large enough to maintain a diplomatic corps. One
Olbricht attacked the difficult problems of breaking Chinese codes. A
man named Benzing took such delight in the Turkish language and
Turkish cryptanalysis that his confreres regarded him as a veritable
Turcomaniac.
The cryptanalysts received some of their greatest help from robots—
mechanisms that speedily performed some of the highly repetitious tasks
required, or that simplified the handling of many items. Many were
tabulating machines that used punched cards in ordinary ways. But
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