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| United Kingdom government protects site that housed World War II codebreakers |
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This file picture shows a four-rotor Enigma machine, right, once used by the crews of German U-boats in World War II to send coded messages, which British World War II code-breaker mathematician Alan Turing, was instrumental in breaking, and which is widely thought to have been a turning point in the war. AP Photo/Alex Dorgan Ross.
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LONDON (AP).- The British government has acted to protect a crumbling piece of wartime — and computing — history.
The government said Friday that it has given protected status to the derelict Block C at Bletchley Park, the site northwest of London where mathematicians and cryptographers toiled in secret to crack Nazi communications codes.
Historians believe their work shortened the war by as much as two years.
The steel-and-concrete Block C contained high-speed data processing machines that helped the British crack Germany's Enigma encryption device.
Heritage Minister John Penrose said Friday that Block C "can be viewed as the birthplace of modern information technology."
Bletchley Park's guardians are fundraising to restore the site and turn it into a museum.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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