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5-6 September 2009
On 5 and 6 September 2009, the annual Enigma Reunion was held at
Bletchley Park in the UK. Although the reunion
is primarily aimed at BP Veterans, such as former code-breakers,
WRENS, Y-Station Operators, etc., the museum often attracts many
extra visitors during the reunion weekend. It is always great to talk with
eye-witnesses and hear their fascinating stories first hand.
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This year was special, as it was the 70th anniversary of the
arrival of top codebreakers Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman
at Bletchley Park on 4 September 1939.
To commemorate the anniversary, the largest-ever exhibition
of Enigma
and other cipher machines was held
during the reunion weekend of 5 and 6 September 2009.
Historians, government organisations, museums, private collectors
and companies
from all over the world, brought their extremely rare machines
to Bletchley Park, to show them to the public. Some machines
were disclosed for the very first time.
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The exhibition was organised by The Bletchley Park trust and was
sponsored by the British intelligence service
GCHQ, who
also brought a number of unique and rare cipher machines.
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Crypto Museum was also present at the event with an extremely rare recently
re-discovered Zählwerk Enigma
machine from 1928, and a sophisticated 10-wheel Russian
Fialka M-125 cipher machine.
The weather was good and thousands of visitors found their way
to Bletchley Park that weekend. The exhibition was a great success
and our Zählwerk Enigma even won
the price for the best Enigma on display.
On Sunday morning the BP veterans visited the exhibition and for
some of them it was the first time they could actually touch
an Enigma machine and see it in action.
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The image above shows the exhibition tent during the veteran visit
on Sunday morning. At the front right, Crypto Museum curator Paul
Reuvers demonstrates the Zählwerk Enigma
to a BP veteran and her son.
More photographs below.
We also have an overview of exhibitors.
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Numerous Enigmas and other cipher machines were brought in for the event
by collectors and organisations from all over the world. At the end of the
reunion, on Sunday evening, pictures were taken of most of the exhibitors
standing behind one of the finest collections of Enigma machines.
Click the image above for an enlargement and browse over the heads
of each of the exhibitors to reveal their names. Alternatively, browse the
Enigma machines at the front to reveal their model number and click on
them for further information.
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The Enigma Reunion in the news
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