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Year 10 History Coursework Louise O'Neill Describe the organisation and work of the people at Bletchley Park? The people who came to Bletchley Park were the 'Brilliant minds of their time'. Many were mathematicians, lawyers, palietonligistgs, and marine biologists. They arrived knowing nothing about the work they were going to do. Bletchley Park was established to intercept and decode the German secret codes created by the Enigma machine. The Enigma machine was very clever and complicated. It had three revolving rotors on which a daily code was set. By typing in a letter the machine randomly changed this into another letter. Unless you had another Enigma machine set on the same code you could not translate the messages. The role of the people who were in control at Bletchley Park was to try and break these intricate codes. They would study the messages and look for similarities or patterns. A...

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