A JEWISH maths genius who helped crack the Enigma code alongside Alan Turing has died at the age of 97.

German-born Rolf Noskwith was stationed at Bletchley Park - the secret site for cracking German codes during World War Two.

7 Noskwith worked alongside Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during World War Two Credit: Wikipedia

7 Alan Turing was in charge of code-breaking squad including Noskwith that broke the Enigma code Credit: Getty Images

It was at there that the "unbreakable" Enigma code was cracked in a breakthrough credited with shortening the war by two years.

Noskwith died on Tuesday - more than 80 years after he arrived in Britain with his parents in 1932.

It was thanks to his efforts and those of his fellow codebreakers that critical information ended up in allies hands - sometimes within hours of it being transmitted.

Noskwith was initially rejected for the armed forces and could not get a job as a linguist, owing to his place of birth.

But he was eventually accepted as a cryptographer, joining some of Britain's best number crunchers, crossword experts and chess champions to work at Bletchley Park, Winston Churchill's secret intelligence and computers headquarters.

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Churchill famously described Bletchley's workers as "the geese that laid the golden egg but never cackled".

Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, was home to the Government's Code And Cypher School, which obtained signals intelligence by intercepting high level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications.

He started at Bletchley's Hut 8 on his 22nd birthday along with other mathematics students at Cambridge University, including several Jews.

The team worked directly under Turing, who had by then broken the German Navy's supposedly unbreakable coding device allowing the allies to locate wolf packs of German submarines attacking their ships.

7 Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire was the hq for Britain's war-time codebreakers Credit: Alamy

7 The codes created by the Enigma machine were believed to be unbreakable Credit: Getty Images

Many messages were still corrupt, however, and Noskwith's job was to guess meanings from the German, then run it through the decoding machine, until the message made sense and was decoded.

Noskwith said: "I had a happy time at Bletchley, not only because of the work but because [it] was always a friendly place.

"There really was a spirit of camaraderie among the cryptanalysts and a sense of a common purpose.

"I can recall no personality clashes or big outbursts of temper. I attribute this to the fascination of the work, the satisfaction of getting results, exemplary leadership and, above all, the personalities of the individuals."

7 Britain’s best number crunchers, crossword experts and chess champions worked at Bletchley Park during the war Credit: Getty Images

After the war, Noskwith worked in the family's hosiery and lingerie firm Charnos, based in Derbyshire.

Years later he met former Bletchley Park colleague Walter Eytan (Ettinghausen), who had since gone to work as a diplomat in Israel.

Noskwith worked closely with Turing during his time at Bletchley Park.

Turing was granted a royal pardon in 2013 - 60 years after his death.

7 Churchill famously described Bletchley’s workers as “the geese that laid the golden egg but never cackled” Credit: Getty Images

He killed himself in shame after a homosexuality conviction in the 1950s.

But he was officially pardoned by the Queen and his offence will be scrubbed from the books after ministers decided it seemed "unjust and discriminatory".

The formal clearing of his name by a Royal Prerogative of Mercy followed a long campaign led by scientist Stephen Hawking, MPs and peers.

After he triumph at Bletchley Park Turing went on to help design the first computers, giving him the title of "the father of modern computing".

7 Bletchley was home to the Government’s Code And Cypher School, which obtained signals intelligence by intercepting high level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications Credit: Getty Images

But he was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after his home was burgled by a friend of his male lover.

He was stripped of his security clearance and had to give up work as a spy at GCHQ.

His cruel sentence was chemical castration by taking female hormones  an alternative to jail.

He took cyanide and died in 1954 aged 41.

Explaining the pardon decision, the then Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "Dr Turing was an exceptional man whose later life was overshadowed by his conviction.

"He deserves to be remembered for his contribution to the war and his legacy to science. A pardon from the Queen is a fitting tribute."

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