Pyry
Pyry is a part of Warsaw municipality Ursynów . The formerly independent municipality is located in the south of the Polish capital about halfway between Warsaw city center and the neighboring town of Piaseczno, about 30 kilometers from Warsaw, on Puławska Street (Polish: ulica Puławska ), the southern arterial road from Warsaw. The extensive wooded area of the Kabaty Forest extends east of Pyry .
history
Pyry was probably founded in the 14th century and was long owned by the Służewski family. The community retained its rural character until the 1990s. Most of the residents were farmers or factory workers in Warsaw. More recently, the area has become increasingly urbanized and is increasingly becoming a preferred residential area for wealthy Warsaw residents who have their villas built here.
Pyry now enjoys worldwide fame through a (then) top secret meeting of British, French and Polish cryptanalysts that took place in the forest near Pyry on July 26th and 27th, 1939, i.e. shortly before the German attack on Poland , which triggered the Second World War . In view of the impending danger, the Polish Biuro Szyfrów (German: "Chiffrenbüro") decided to hand over all of its knowledge of the deciphering processes of the German ENIGMA rotor key machine , which the German military uses to encrypt their radio messages , to its English and French allies. Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ' N , 21 ° 1' E
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ralph Erskine: The Poles Reveal their Secrets - Alastair Dennistons's Account of the July 1939 Meeting at Pyry . Cryptologia. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia PA 30.2006,4, p. 294