Original upload date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 05:30:24 GMT
Captain Jerry Roberts, UCL German alumnus and WW2 codebreaker, on 11 March 2009 he delivered his talk - 'My Top-Secret Codebreaking During World War II" at UCL about his experiences breaking the 'Tunn
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y (the Lorenz)' at Bletchley Park. He was a senior codebreaker and linguist in the Testery, who cracked Hitler's Most Secret Tunny code: a much more complex 12 wheel cipher system than the well-known 3 wheel Enigma.
Tunny was declassified only in 2002. Most people in 'the Testery' have died by now, the work of the Testery remains seriously undervalued and poorly recognised by the public, Testery's achievements had very little or nothing.
Captain Roberts is the last British survivor of the Tunny codebreakers. For the last 4 years, he has been campaigning for proper recognition for Bletchley Park's "Heroes", especially for his colleague Bill Tutte who broke the Tunny-system to help shorten the War by at least 2 years. If Bill Tutte had not broken the Tunny system, if the breaking of Tunny messages had not been so vital, there would have been no need for a Colossus at that time.
Tunny declassified only a few years ago, for the first in 2011, BBC Timewatch made a programme 'Code-breakers -- Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF48sl15OCg&feature=related
This documentary won two Academy Awards BAFTAs of the 2012, for the best documentary and best editing! Great story, watch it if you can, very moving!
