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2026-06-27 12:03 UTC
While working at Bletchly Park at the height of World War II, Turing lead Hut 8, the section of the Britains codebreaking devision against the Nazis, Turing and his teams work gave the Allied powers the edge to defeat the Nazis and their allies in multiple crucial battles - shortening WW2 by many years, saving millions of lives and preventing the takeover of the world by facist forces.
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@kde@floss.social 2026-06-27 12:03
Despite his loyalty and heroic acts for his country, Turing was prosecuted by the British government for being homosexual, and given an ultimatum - go to prison for years, and thus barred from research, or accept chemical castration in an attempt to "cure" him of his homosexuality. 2 agonizing years later, Turing commited suicide via cyanide posioning, leaving behind a lot of unfinished research. @gnome@floss.social