Cryptanalyst alan turing. Prior to his writing career, he worked for the Government Legal Service and then the International Law firm clifford chance. He is currently a trustee of the trust. Trust turing he is also a visiting fellow at oxford. Last but not least, he is a member of the honorary board here at the International Spy museum. And he is a tremendous supporter of our educational efforts at spy. We are excited to have government here today to discuss how enigma was we are excited to have him here today to discuss how enigma was broken with the cooperative efforts of poland, britain, and france. After the presentation, we invite you to walk up to the microphones on each side of the theater and ask questions. There will be plenty of time to ask your questions and get them answered. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to dermot turing. Thank you. [applause] dermot many thanks for the warm welcome. I think it is amazing to see how sincepace has transformed the move last year fr
Serving as the Bletchley Park visiting fellow at oxford. Ember of themumbe honorary board here at the International Spy museum and he is a tremendous supporter of our efforts. Were excited to have dermot here today to tell us how enigma was really broken with the cooperative efforts of britain, poland, and france. We would presentation, like you to walk up to the microphones on each side of the theater and ask your questions. There will be plenty of time to ask your questions and get them answered. Join me in giving a warm welcome to dermot turing. [applause] chris, andy thanks, to all of you for the welcome home. Before i start, i would like to say to chris and to the team here, i think it is amazing to see how this place has transformed since the move last year. You have an amazing array of things going on here. All wondering with the real story of enigma code breaking is because otherwise you would not have showed up to this talk. I think you probably know it already. Laid my cumber
This was once a center of the nazi party in the unit. And here where the nazis planned the systematic seizure of jewish assets today a belated restitution for those crimes is being worked on. The backs of documents that have arrived at the Central Institute for our history in munich are a treasure trove for the art world provenance researcher michael hop has received the entire archive of the uli as buller our dealership from the years 1933 to 1945 to work through. It could be a huge opportunity to locate lost artworks from jewish collections. As this said that. This can be like looking for a needle in a haystack we have at least 1500. 00 photos like this to digitize we have a total of nearly 40000. 00 of burleighs transactions that were working on and figuring out so we have a lot of work ahead of us on making our microphones the. Picked up 10. Masa. Feet lend. Out to a wooden stein james blish without Fritz Goodman i got to sell and none. These are important names but we must always
These are important names but we must always remember that theyre simply representative of very very many fates and the nazi era. By them given the large number of objects we provenance researchers work with and the many names we encounter that we cant even properly identify cases like these are very important as examples they enable us to demonstrate how the mechanism of expropriation and looting functioned and how certain objects ended up in museums. And of course each object has a very moving story to tell of the fate of its former owners. And. The town of falling in is located in southwestern germany. This is where the jewish couple errands and i gotto zalman who were evident collectors loot from the late 1920 s. Until they were forced to flee nazi germany in late 1935. Providence researcher eras schmeiser was examining the collection of lead because museum in frankfurt. She was checking its legality when she found that the museum had a madonna figure that had belonged to the solom
Prohibition and organized crime, as well as popular music and sports of the era. Morning,koe good everybody. Today we will discuss the jazz age. Or at least i will discuss it, and youre part of the discussion will be at the end, so please write down any thoughts you have, questions, responses. That would be good. Fromazz age is the period 1919 to 1929. It reminds me of the opening lines of the tale of two cities by charles dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It wasnt exactly the best of times. But for many people, it was certainly good times. It was the great age of literature, the golden age of sports, music, jazz. The 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time. Radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of the aged, and certainly of the automobile, the model t. Almostiles were for every budget. Times, which good we will discuss. And it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were s