The real imitators get Oscars

Up for an Oscar this year is The Imitation Game based on the Bletchley Park team lead by Alan Turing who are credited with breaking the German Enigma code during WWII. But he was not the first to figure out the Enigma's secrets.

The untold story is that the brilliant Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski and his colleagues were the first to break Enigma mega-powerful encryption prior to the outbreak of war. 

Rejewski

A comprehensive story behind the Enigma can be found here.

Marian Rejewski of Bydgoszcz, mathematician, cryptologist is a celebrated patriot in Poland. His team of Poles built a replica of Enigma, just like the pre-war military model on display at the Arithmeum museum of mathematics in Bonn, Germany. Below is a picture of an exhibit chronicling their work.  

Exhibit