Code-Breaker Turing Posthumously Pardoned Over Gay Sex
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Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer whose code-breaking work helped the Allies win World War II, has been posthumously granted a royal pardon for his 1952 conviction for indecency over a homosexual relationship.
Turing was 27 when, at the outbreak of World War II, he reported to Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking headquarters northwest of London. There he was responsible for a series of breakthroughs that allowed the cracking of the German Enigma code, allowing the Allies to read all the Nazis’ communications.