Taking 75 years to give Poland credit

The BBC reports today: The first breakthrough in the battle to crack Nazi Germany's Enigma code was made not in Bletchley Park (England) but in Warsaw. The debt owed by British wartime codebreakers to their Polish colleagues was acknowledged this week at a quiet gathering of spy chiefs. 

The 2001 film Enigma co-produced by Mick Jagger, who provided funding for the film, as well as access to his own Enigma machine had mostly positive critical reviews although there was criticism of the largely fictional story-line which does not mention nor give due credit to the Polish cryptanalysis foundation Cipher Bureau that originally broke the dauntingly difficult code.

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There are many other contributions by Poland through the centuries. Giving credit where credit is due is a long time coming for the Poles.