“Equipo D” Documentary: Spanish Republican Cryptanalysts Who Broke the Nazi Enigma

As long as I’m posting about very unfortunately overlooked stories about the Polish cryptanalysts of WWII who were the first to break the Nazi Enigma in the early 1930s… I should also mention here that Spanish cryptanalysts collaborated with the Poles yet are even lesser known.

1942 photo of the Spanish and Polish cryptanalysts at the Cadix center in Uzès, France. Left to right: Marian Rejewski, Edward Fokczynski, unknown Spaniard, Henryk Zygalski, unknown Spaniard, Jerzy Rozycki, Antonio Camazón, Antoni Palluth, unknown Spaniard

I just noticed that an hour-long 2019 documentary about them was posted online by RTVE (“EQUIPO D: LOS CÓDIGOS OLIVDADOS” or The Lost Codes) to help bring this chapter of history to light.

Here’s my very rough translation of its synopsis:

This documentary sheds light into the WWII story of Allied codebreakers. It was a strategic chess match in the shadows, involving the brightest minds of the era, whose outcome was crucial to speeding up a violent end to German and Italian fascism. The role of Spanish cryptographers was both pivotal and yet largely unnoticed until now.

Previously, we knew just that a group of Republican codebreakers, imprisoned by Franco’s regime, had been rescued by French military and put into service against Germany. They were joined with elite units of Allied minds (American, British, French, and Polish) to work on deciphering the Nazi Enigma machine, a tool essential to the communication of Hitler’s troops.

This film delves into the identity and contributions of this small Spanish group of codebreakers known as Team D. Overlooked by history, they courageously risked their lives in the world-wide fight against fascism.

And here’s the RTVE trailer released five years ago for a documentary called “EQUIPO D: LOS CÓDIGOS DESCONOCIDOS” (The Unknown Codes) that so far has exactly only 184 views on YouTube.

CA Tesla Kills One on Scooter

The report so far reads like a Tesla ran a stop sign and pulled out in front of a scooter, throwing the injured victim into traffic where he was then run over.

The crash happened about 1:38 p.m. near the intersection of South 10th Street and Elizabeth Street, San Jose police said in a news release Monday.

An adult man was riding a Ninebot electric scooter on South 10th Street when he crashed into a Tesla Model Y turning from Elizabeth Street onto South 10th.

Source: Google Maps

Police have said that while the accident was April 30th, the hospitalized victim succumbed to injuries on May 2nd.

CN Tesla Kills Two in “Veered” Zhejiang Crash With No Data

The mysterious case of a brand new Tesla that crashed on a Zhejiang mountain road in China highlights a lack of both car and data integrity.

Firstly, they were shocked to learn about the vehicle’s speed at the time of the accident. According to Mr. Tang, the traffic police revealed that the vehicle had reached a maximum speed of 120 km/h. This revelation was startling to the family, as they couldn’t fathom how a vehicle could reach such a speed on a winding mountain road.

Secondly, the absence of any brake marks at the accident scene raised eyebrows. When Mr. Tang and his family visited the site, they were met with this puzzling scenario.

Mr. Tang expressed his confusion, “One would assume that the driving recorder should have captured some useful information during the vehicle’s operation. Even if the impact rendered it useless, there should at least be a record of the moment of impact. But the police are saying that there’s no record at all, which is quite baffling and inevitably prompts some distressing thoughts.”

In response to the incident, a Tesla representative stated today that they are aware of the accident and are currently relying on the police for information.

Tesla officially says they are relying on police for information?

There’s a bizarre irony to this tragic tale given Tesla just asked the Chinese government for a financial bailout based on sharing data with them, the opposite of what is being reported here.

Tesla Cybertrucks Dump on Market But Nobody is Buying

It turns out if you buy a new Tesla vehicle, not only will you be miserable from all the quality failures, witnesses also will wonder why you fell for the scam. Nobody is buying, like nobody should be falling into any fraud, and that’s a good thing.

In Nantucket, for example, a Cybertruck immediately became newsworthy for the usual Wankpanzer reasons, driving attention to poor life decisions (unartificial unintelligence). The town paper simply said out loud what everyone was thinking when a Tesla came to town.

The vehicle with Connecticut plates was first spotted by people on Main Street, where it was parked directly on a crosswalk in front of Congdon & Coleman. But that was just the beginning.

A few hours later the truck reappeared, and this time it was stuck in the sand at Eel Point. The spectacle drew a small crowd before the $80,000 (starting price) vehicle was pulled out by the new “I Pull Out Beach Towing” service.

Wearing dirty underpants on your head might be as effective as stepping into a Cybertruck to be seen. Yet some people seem so desperate to proclaim a total absence of any common sense they sign papers with Tesla to start lighting piles of money on fire.

Advanced fee fraud (AFF) is the technical phrase to describe a Tesla purchase, and such things should be treated as criminal.

I mean a bunch of people who invested far too much money already in Tesla’s misleading product promises now desperately are trying to dump their Cybertruck onto the market, even after suffering almost no miles of the nonsense.

Cybertrucks clearly are not selling, despite having a lack of miles on the (alleged faulty) odometer. Only 4,000 reportedly have been made in total, which means more than 100 “used” models sitting without buyers months later is an unmistakable rapid collapse in value.

This is truly a new low for Tesla, as their former models were known to flame out (literally) and end up in junkyards around 10,000 miles. Now they can’t even get their truck up to 2,000 miles before being dumped?

No wonder the car company has been loudly hinting that it doesn’t see any future in its car sales, firing everyone for four weeks already, and begging like an African dictatorship for a Chinese government bailout.

China is said quickly to have agreed to step in, and allegedly will pay Tesla for access to data on owners, as well as for control of Tesla cars as a form of global surveillance (robot spies).

Who in their right mind would pay to be a part of that deal?

If owning or even just operating a Tesla now means you are forced by Elon Musk’s poor life choices into doing the work of the Chinese military, at least he or they should pay you and not the other way around. What are they worth?

Negative value.

A free Tesla still isn’t worth the risk. Don’t let your friends or family near one.