Hut 8

E310473

Hut 8 was a section at Bletchley Park during World War II where British codebreakers, including Alan Turing, worked on decrypting German naval Enigma communications.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hut 8 canonical 9

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf codebreaking section
organizational unit
activeDuring World War II
associatedWith Admiralty (United Kingdom)
surface form: British Admiralty

Royal Navy
commandedBy Alan Turing
contributedTo Allied intelligence services
surface form: Allied naval intelligence

Allies of World War II
surface form: Allied victory in World War II

Battle of the Atlantic
country United Kingdom
employed Alan Turing
Bill Tutte
Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander
Donald Michie
Hugh Alexander
Solomon Kullback
surface form: I. J. Good

Joan Clarke
Max Newman
Peter Twinn
Stuart Milner-Barry
field cryptanalysis
signals intelligence
focus German naval Enigma
surface form: Kriegsmarine signals intelligence
hasHeritageDesignation part of Bletchley Park heritage site
historicalSignificance major center for breaking German naval Enigma
languageOfWork English
laterLedBy Hugh Alexander
locatedInMilitaryConflict European theatre of World War II
location Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England
namedAfter its physical wooden hut building at Bletchley Park
notableMember Alan Turing
Hugh Alexander
Joan Clarke
Stuart Milner-Barry
operatedBy Government Code and Cypher School
partOf Bletchley Park
primaryTask decryption of German naval Enigma communications
successor Block D (Bletchley Park) for some functions
timePeriodEnd circa 1945
timePeriodStart circa 1940
usedCryptanalyticTarget German naval Enigma
usedMethod Banburismus
crib-based attacks
statistical cryptanalysis
usedTool Bombe

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.