The Use of Codes by the World Powers in WWII - Codes and Code-breakers 

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This was one of the best shows today that I've watched so far, and that's saying something. I really hope that you'll have David Alexander back on again. He explains things in a way that are easy to understand.

Wonderful presentation by David. A wonderful communicator. A very complex subject very clearly explained. Thank you

An absolutely amazing presentation. David gave an excellent overview of an incredibly complex topic. What a brilliant way to start off Code & Codebreaking Week on WW2TV!

David Alexander expertly deciphered cryptography and codes into plain English. Superb show. Do bring him back for more Paul. Thumbs up.

excellent show on Codebreaking in wwII; this is essentially an introduction course to the use of codes; call it Codebreaking 101. a terrific start to Code-breakers week on ww2tv. very clear and easy to follow, despite being a complex subject.

Brilliant show. I am so excited for code and code breakers week, the story of Bletchley and Enigma was what first piqued my interest in WW2

Fabulous presentation. Concise, informative and brilliantly explained in an easily understandable manner. Couldn't have chosen a better start to Codes and Code-breakers Week, well done.

Wow! David Alexander = brilliant, and a brilliant presentation.

This was just an outstanding presentation! Some much involvement by brilliant minds that helped and continue to help countries. The public service mindset they had is so admirable. Thank you David and Paul for this program. Big thumbs up on this one.

quoting Brian Yee in the live chat "​Paul continues to hit grand slams with his shows." couldn't agree more; this is a smashing good show.

David Alexander, David O’Keefe and the other guests on you show Woody, the topic(s) gives me a better appreciation and education of Allied decisions and actions. This is spell binding stuff! Well done.

What a wonderful topic , guest, channel, bravo... thoughtful, humble, while seeking a greater understanding. Between this and Drachinifel I'm set. Thanks all

Great presentation, any chance David can come back and explain how the lorenz was broken?

Hi, missed this. My Mother was a codebreaker. In the News last week.

I often wonder what the Navaho word for four engine bomber would be.

Incredible presentation!

Another great lecture!

Excellent show

Late to the show but my goodness an excellent presentation.

Very interesting indeed.

Is WW2TV or David Alexander going to do a program or book on the use of SIGABA in Pacific during ww2 army and navy?

I had heard from a former boss in Japan that the Japanese military in fact did use an obscure idiomatic dialect of Japanese in a parallel to the Navaho code-talkers confident that no speakers from that village resided in US or UK. However, several villagers had emigrated to Brazil and ended up in the US by a second emigration unknown to the Japanese military. I never thought to ask any further details about the specific village(s) while I was there.

Enigma movie from 2001,Producer Mick Jagger lent his own Enigma cipher machine to the production.

Where does the 101 reference come from? The only instance that I know of came from Orwell.

When he was talking about patterns in codes, I suddenly imagined the difficulty the Finnish military must have with these kinds of codes. Seemingly every word in Finnish has multiple double vowels. I imagine a really sharp minded and fluent reader of Finnish could decrypt any one for one cipher in seconds just by looking at the pattern of the doubled letters. I'm joking but I can picture my old Finnish friend glaring at me with a smirk because she knows I'm joking yet also knows there's some truth to it.

What the hell was all that noise at the beginning? Use a music editor to normalize the sound levels.

AF is out of water.

My mum once tol me this. Sent 3 and four pence I’m going to a dance

Interpret Send reinforcement we are going to advance

Send three and four pence we are going to a dance

🤣we used 'black horse'=01234567890 in 1993 when not on sincgars