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Alan Turing - The Enigma Code
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AnnCardiff | Report | 24 Dec 2013 15:22 |
Horrified to learn of this on the news today - this brilliantly clever man whose work cracked the Enigma Code cut the war short by about two years and therefore saved thousands of lives, was prosecuted for being a homosexual and was chemically castrated!! |
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JustJohn | Report | 24 Dec 2013 15:39 |
Wonderful gesture by the Queen. I remember attitudes back then. My mother told me she had never heard the word homosexual till she was 30 (born in 1924), it was not natural and she and many others considered it a treatable illness. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 24 Dec 2013 15:52 |
I was also appalled by this, I read about it a while back as several people including some MP's were pushing for a pardon for him. |
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Mersey | Report | 24 Dec 2013 16:11 |
I did a history project sometime ago about Alan Turing for my Nans home (long story)... |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 24 Dec 2013 17:38 |
lovely story Mersey - what a privilege to have met him |
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Mersey | Report | 24 Dec 2013 17:43 |
To think that his work is thought to have shortened the war by 2 years...... |
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Dermot | Report | 24 Dec 2013 19:21 |
This chap seems to have acquitted himself with honour, dignity, and courage in the face of eventual ridicule. It is difficult to entertain the concept of his defeat. Unfortunately, history cannot be changed. |
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MayBlossomEmpressofSpring | Report | 24 Dec 2013 23:41 |
Manchester City Council named the by-pass road through what is now known as Eastlands Alan Turing Way many years after he had died., some compensation for his family I must say! |
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ZZzzz | Report | 25 Dec 2013 17:18 |
Pardon my ignorance, but what is chemical castration, what did it do to his body, how long did it last, seems very cruel to me. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 25 Dec 2013 20:42 |
Chemical castrationFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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ZZzzz | Report | 26 Dec 2013 08:12 |
Thanks AnnCardiff, I must try to remember that I do have Wikipeda :-) |
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Dermot | Report | 26 Dec 2013 09:31 |
How about a Royal non-posthumous pardon for the Duchess of York? |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 26 Dec 2013 11:19 |
and what about all the other homosexuals who were targeted in the same way Alan was, surely they also deserve a pardon - some of them must still be alive today |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 26 Dec 2013 19:42 |
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ChAoTicintheNewYear | Report | 26 Dec 2013 20:06 |
All of them deserve a pardon, dead or alive, but this is a start which is better than nothing. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 26 Dec 2013 20:27 |
I agree ChAoTicChristmas, that what they are by nature not nurture and how can that be breaking the law? |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 27 Dec 2013 07:52 |
I just hope that Alan Turing is now allowed to rest in peace, but on a cynical note I hope that the granting of this pardon is not hijacked for electioneering purposes to boost the gay vote in the run up to the election. |
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TessAkaBridgetTheFidget | Report | 27 Dec 2013 14:11 |
I didn't know that the great Alan Turing was punished for being homosexual. |
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