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A gardener's son cycled 18 miles to school. Twenty years later, he cracked Hitler's most secret cipher without ever seeing the machine.
Bill Tutte's breakthrough led to the world's first electronic computer and shortened WWII by two years. Then he kept it secret for 50 years while Alan Turing got famous.
October 1941. Every senior codebreaker at Bletchley Park had tried to crack the Lorenz cipher. Every one had failed. They gave the problem to Tutte because they'd run out of options. He sat in a back bedroom with sheets of graph paper, writing numbers in different row lengths. Colleagues thought he was wasting time.
Three months later, he'd reverse-engineered a 12-wheel cipher machine with 501 pin settings—without ever seeing it. Pure mathematical deduction. The intelligence helped win D-Day.
Then Churchill ordered the computers destroyed and the secret buried. Tutte watched Turing become a legend while his own story disappeared.
This is the greatest intellectual feat of World War II. The one almost nobody knows about.


PRIMARY SOURCES
This video is based on verified historical documentation:
• W.T. Tutte, "FISH and I" (1998) - Tutte's own account of breaking Lorenz
• Jerry Roberts, Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park (The History Press, 2017)
• Jack Copeland (ed.), Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers (Oxford, 2006)
• General Report on Tunny (1945, declassified 2000) - Official 500+ page wartime technical record
• BBC documentary Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes (2011) - Two-time BAFTA winner
• University of Waterloo archives and interviews with colleague Dan Younger
• MacTutor History of Mathematics biography
• The Times, The Independent, The Guardian obituaries (2002)
• Paul Gannon, Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret (Atlantic Books, 2006)
All quotes in this video are verified from primary sources or official obituaries.