Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government's Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out.

Who broke the Enigma code Turing or rejewski?

To the outside world, it was Turing that had cracked the Enigma and shortened the war. Indeed, by the time The Imitation Game film about Turing was released in 2014, the efforts of the Polish cryptographers had been reduced to just one line.

Who broke the Germans code?

The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles, under the leadership of mathematician Marian Rejewski, in the early 1930s.