Colossus was one of the world's first programmable digital computers, developed during World War II to help break encrypted German messages. It was designed by British engineer Tommy Flowers and his team at Bletchley Park, where critical codebreaking efforts took place. Colossus began operation in 1944 and was specifically used to decrypt the Lorenz cipher, which was employed for high-level military communications by the German military.
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