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Queen Elizabeth II unveils monument to codebreakers who cracked Nazi Germany’s secrets

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has unveiled a monument to hundreds of mathematicians and cryptographers who worked in secret during World War II to crack Nazi Germany’s communications codes.

The monarch and her husband visited Bletchley Park northwest of London, former home of the top-secret Code and Cypher School, whose staff cracked Adolf Hitler’s supposedly unbreakable codes....

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