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Alan Turing, Codebreaker

Docudrama "Codebreaker" on Yesterday Channel based Alan Turing's Writings, Historical Records and  accounts of those who knew him. October 1952  Franz Greenbaum was Turing's Physchiatrist who fled just before WW2  because he was a German born Jew.  His Daughters, Maria Summerscale and Barbara Maher recollect that "He turned up in the most extraordinary clothes when he came, it was as though he'd been out of a rag-bag".  They mention in the interview that their father accepting Homosexualality far out during that time.  Turing's Older brother (John) had Dermot and he says that both brothers "Were sons of the empire, their father was in the Indian civil service, and with his wife being pregnant with Alan, they're sent back to England with a foster family and they don't see their parents again until his Father serves again in a years' time"  He suspects this is why Alan found it easy to disappear into his own world because of this.