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from https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_given_posthumous_pardon



The ability for the British to decode German communication may possibly have shortened the war by two years. In 1952, Turing was convicted of gross indecency after he had a relationship with another man. He was subjected to chemical castration as an alternative to going to prison.

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_given_posthumous_pardon


Arne


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