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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Zbigniew Boniek, Marian Rejewski, Rados aw Sikorski, Erich Buchholz, Konstanty Dombrowicz, Alexander Schimmelfennig, Tomasz Gollob, Kurt Tank, Jan Kulczyk, Wojciech obodzi ski, Eberhard von Mackensen, Jacek Gollob, Mieczys aw Garsztka, Grzegorz Schreiber, Sylwester Szmyd, Kosma Z otowski, Rafa Bruski, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Hermann Maass, Krzysztof Brejza, Pawe Olszewski, List of presidents of Bydgoszcz, Julius Gehl, Vivian Schmitt, Morris D. Rosenbaum, Gra yna Szapo owska, Rudiger Hertel, Micha Winiarski, Lucyna Andrysiak, Johannes Arndt, Daniel We na, Wojciech Mojzesowicz, Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, Katarzyna Radtke, Romuald Kosieniak, ukasz Abgarowicz, Sebastian Latowski, Ewa Sowi ska, Mariusz Kazana, Damian wierblewski, Witold Hatka, Louis Jacobsohn-Lask, Pawe Wojciechowski, Andrzej Walkowiak, Beata Miko ajczyk, Max Friedlaender, Katarzyna Kulczak, Ryszard Kubiak, Jerzy Braun, Teodor Kocerka, ukasz Michalski, Janusz Turowski, Edmund Micha Piszcz, Jan Rulewski, Sebastian Chmara, S awomir Jeneralski, Walter Leistikow, Krystyna Ostrom cka, Bart omiej Bartnicki, Sebastian Szubski, Hugo Hergesell, Marcin Jaskulski. Excerpt: Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 - 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in 1932 solved the plugboard-equipped Enigma machine, the main cipher device used by Germany. The success of Rejewski and his colleagues Jerzy Ro ycki and Henryk Zygalski jump-started British reading of Enigma in World War II; the intelligence so gained, code-named "Ultra," contributed, perhaps decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany. While studying mathematics at Pozna University, Rejewski had attended a secret cryptology course conducted by the Polish General Staff's Biuro Szyfrow (Cipher Bureau), which he joined full-time in 1932. The Bureau had achieved little success reading En..
