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Nazi film "Triumph des Willens" ("Triumph of the Will")
Triumph des Willens: Hitler's WWII-launching corruption of Nietzscheian philosophy Nazi film "Triumph des Willens" ("Triumph of the Will") is "a 1935 German propaganda film directed, produced, edited, and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters…The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) troops and public reaction. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The film's overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the leader who will bring glory to the nation" - Triumph of the Will
Nietzsche documentary (Netflix): "Genius of the Modern World" Season 1 Historian Bettany Hughes explores the intellectual landscapes that helped shape the work of...Nietzsche". The documentary covers the time Nietzsche spent in Switzerland at Basel & Lausanne, as well as the village Sils Maria where he was a notable resident in his home at Nietzsche-Haus. Also covered in the episode are Hitler's visit to the Nietzsche Archive (Wiki), where he met Archive founder Nietzsch's sister (captioned) Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche & was photographed by a bust of Nietzsche in the Archive. "Förster-Nietzsche assumed the roles of curator and editor of her brother's manuscripts. She reworked his unpublished writings to fit her own ideology often in ways contrary to her brother's stated opinions...Through Förster-Nietzsche's editions, Nietzsche's name became associated with German militarism and National Socialism...Förster-Nietzsche took a leading role in promoting her brother, especially through the publication of a collection of Nietzsche's fragments under the name of The Will to Power...In 1930, Förster-Nietzsche, a German nationalist and antisemite...became a supporter of the National Socialist Party. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nietzsche Archive received financial support and publicity from the government, in return for which Förster-Nietzsche bestowed her brother's considerable prestige on the régime...Förster-Nietzsche's funeral in 1935 was attended by Hitler and several high-ranking German officials" - Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. "Genius of the Modern World" Season 1, Episode 2 Nietzsche: YouTube / Netflix.
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park: "the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain….Work on specific countries' signals...German signals...Most German messages decrypted at Bletchley were produced by one or another version of the Enigma cipher machine, but an important minority were produced by the even more complicated twelve-rotor Lorenz SZ42 on-line teleprinter cipher machine" - Wiki Bletchley Park
Enigma
Enigma machine: "a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication…German military models, having a plugboard, were the most complex. Japanese and Italian models were also in use” (Note: A 3 rotor machine would generate ~ 100,000 or 105 ways to encode a message, all of which would need to be run until decoding the message; an added 6-lead plugboard increased combinations to ~ 1011; later added rotors (up to 8) & plugboard leads (up to 10) increased the count to 1.5×1019, topping out at 1.8×1020) - Wiki Enigma machine.
Bombe (front, back, inside)
Bombe: "an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages...The initial design…was produced in 1939 at the UK Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing" - Wiki Bombe.
Lorenz
Lorenz cipher: "German rotor stream cipher machines...were in-line attachments to standard teleprinters...Wireless telegraph...rather than land-line circuits was used for this traffic...These non-Morse...messages were...deciphered using hand methods before the process was partially automated, first with [the British Tunny, then Heath] Robinson machines and then with the Colossus computers" - Wiki Lorenz cipher.
Tunny
British Tunny: "designed by Bletchley Park, based on the reverse engineering work done by Tiltman's team in the Testery, to emulate the Lorenz Cipher Machine" - Wiki Lorenz cipher Decryption machines; "a device that exactly replicated the functions of the SZ40/42 machines...used to produce the German cleartext from a ciphertext tape" - Wiki Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher British Tunny
Heath Robinson
Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine): "used by British codebreakers [in] decryption of messages...produced by the Lorenz...in-line cipher machine...It was mainly an electro-mechanical machine, containing no more than a couple of dozen valves (vacuum tubes)...and was the predecessor to the electronic Colossus computer" - Wiki Heath Robinson.
Colossus
Colossus computer: "a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded...as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored program" - Wiki Colossus computer
Churchill War Rooms
Churchill War Rooms: "When Churchill travelled outside London and overseas, the summaries and assessments of Enigma decrypts were sent on to him by courier or top-secret radio signal. When he was in Britain, translated summaries of the decrypts, and the Bletchley assessments, were sent him in locked buff-coloured boxes to which he alone had the key", often directly to the Churchill War Rooms - Churchill and Intelligence – Golden Eggs: The Secret War, 1940-1945 / Part I: Britain and America > Churchill War Rooms (Imperial War Museums).
Resources: Bletchley Park
● Cliff & Toni's visit photo album "Bletchley Park WWII Code Encryption/Decryption Machines"
● Colossus builder Tony Sale's Talks, Tour & Emulators Website "Codes and Ciphers"
● National Museum of Computing
Articles
● Bletchley Park: It's No Secret, Just an Enigma
● How Alan Turing Cracked The Enigma Code...Imperial War Museums
Enigma Emulators
● Enigma Machine Emulator Public Enigma Simulator Universal Enigma simulator Enigma Simulator APK App
Movie/TV (British oriented - Bletchley, WWII…)
(note: for YouTube highest definition, in video controls bar click "Settings" (gear icon), then click "Quality", then click largest #):
Bletchley Park/Alan Turing:
● Codebreaker The Imitation Game
WWII:
● 13 Hours That Saved Britain (YouTube)
● Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain 'Winkle' Brown (YouTube)
TV (series):
● The Bletchley Circle (Amazon)
Movie (General WWII):
● The 20 Best World War II Movies Ever Made The 20 Best War Movies On Netflix The 50 best war movies of all time
● YouTube: Classic…best…full length…ww2 movies
Home Theater > Apple TV > Movies > Classics > WWII Collection (~ 84 films as of Memorial Day 2018)
Home Theater Apple TV Movies, Classics, WWII Collection: The above sequence of home theater Apple TV screenshot photos (click photo to zoom) leads to a folder collection of WWII movies. Starting at the top left-most photo, & moving from left-to right, top-to-bottom, the path to the collections is: from the Apple TV home screen, select "Movies", then "Genres", then "Classics" to get to the Classics screen; then scroll down to the 1st row of collections folders titled "Movies Just Added…The Criterion Collection" etc & scroll on that row all the way to the right until reaching the end folder collection titled "World War II Collection", then select the folder to view the collection - the remaining photos show the entire collection a screen-full at a time moving from left-to right, top-to-bottom.
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