Alan Turing Won WWII in Secret, Then His Own Country DESTROYED Him

He shortened World War II by years and saved millions of lives, then his own country broke him.

Alan Turing was a shy, brilliant boy who felt more at home with numbers than people.

Years before computers existed, he imagined a single machine that could solve any problem.

When war came, he was sent to Bletchley Park to break the unbreakable: the Nazi Enigma code.

He built a machine that cracked it, feeding the Allies Germany's secrets in near real time.

His work stayed classified for decades, so the public never knew the man who helped win the war.

After the war, he laid the foundations of computing and asked if a machine could think.

Then in 1952, he was arrested simply for being gay, a crime under British law.

To avoid prison he was chemically castrated. Two years later, he was found dead by cyanide.

The nation that owed him everything pardoned him in 2013, sixty years too late.

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