How did they get over the catch-22 that if they used the information that Nazis could guess it came from breaking the code but if they didn’t use the information there was no point in having it.
EDIT. I tagged this as mathematics because the movie suggests the use of mathematics, but does not explain how you use mathematics to do it (it’s a movie!). I am wondering for example if they made a slight tweak to random search patterns so that they still looked random but “coincidentally” found what we already knew was there. It would be extremely hard to detect the difference between a genuinely random pattern and then almost genuinely random pattern.
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This is gonna go into conspiracy territory.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11486219
TLDR: A number of historians state that in an attempt to hide the fact that the code had been broken, the hard decision was taken to let some people die. The article I linked attempts to shed light on the subject and even try to refute it, but really, no one knows for sure.
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