Aiding in Hitler's downfall

Woman Bletchley Park Code Breaker honoured for aiding Hitler’s downfall

 
Ursula Frost remembers the day Winston Churchill arrived at Bletchley Park to tell her and other Enigma codebreakers they had helped end World War II.
”Churchill came down and told us we’d ended the war by two years. We were very pleased to hear that,” the 95-year-old Aucklander says.
”He came down and saw us twice which we always thought was great, rather. He didn’t have all that time to do those sort of things.”
Frost will be thanked for her services when Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman presents her with a special badge from the United Kingdom next Friday at Auckland rest home.
But why she is receiving the badge after 67 years is also an enigma, she said.
Frost worked for section M18 during the war, cracking German army and air force codes under computer maverick Alan Turing.
He was a bright-minded, ”very nice chap”, she says, but they never spoke of his codebreaking secrets.

Hitler's Cabriolet still here

Is this Hitler’s Mercedes? Car dealer’s shock at discovering vintage car he bought from eBay was built for Nazi officers

on July 11, 2012 at 09:08

When a New Jersey auto dealer called up Mercedes to order parts for a vintage car he was repairing, they asked for the vehicle’s serial number.
Zenop Tuncer was shocked to hear the company reply: ‘That’s Hitler’s car.’The 1942 Mercedes 320 Cabriolet D was part of a fleet built for senior officers of the Third Reich during the Second World War. While the model which ended up being repaired in Edgewater, New Jersey was probably not flashy enough to be driven by the Führer himself, it is likely to have belonged to one of his generals.