Q. What would you call Europe today, had the Polish Cipher Bureau not broken the Nazi Enigma code in 1932?
A. The Third Reich.
I got another one.
What would you call Europe today if it wasn’t for “The Miracle on the Vistula” in 1920?
The Soviet Union.
1932? Wasn’t Germany still the weimar republic then?
Amen.
The West can never repay its debt to the brave Polish underground members who suffered torture and died at the hands of the Germans rather than reveal that an Enigma machine had been captured — or a V-1 rescued from a swamp and its innards shipped to England for study. RIP and thank you, brave, brave men.