[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Drawing on recently declassified archives Sir Dermot Turing told in full the real story how Enigma was broken. He fully acknowledged the groundbreaking work of Polish mathematicians produced as early as 1930s which subsequently led to the joint efforts of the French, British and Polish secret services (X, Y and Z) during the Second World War.

Ok, I read about this in the 80s. I know I did because I wrote a research paper on it. One of the books I used was "A Man Called Intrepid" which I think was where I got it from but it might have been another book. My point is, if, as a ninth grader living in a non-English speaking country with limited resources, I knew this it is well nigh impossible for this not to be common knowledge.

Is this one of those things that is just regarded as "new" because they have eliminated all history written before 2017?

[Chickensoup]

Yes.

I knew it too.

We had Information and were well read and educated.

Go into a library or bookstore today and you will find it hard to believe the tripe there. And shocked at what isn’t there.