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Thread #39503   Message #566004
Posted By: Grab
05-Oct-01 - 08:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Enigma--the movie
Subject: RE: BS: Enigma--the movie
Red, Turing was surely intelligent, but not necessarily of the real world. The Station X programme on C4 had a woman who said she approached him to talk to him, and he practically ran in the other direction - extremely scared of women. I doubt he'd've married a woman as a "decoy" any more than you'd cuddle up to a python to protect you from the tarantulas...

Bletchley was atypical for the period generally, but very typical of a WW2 working environment. Most offices and factories were worked by women whilst the men were busy getting shot at.

Graham.