During WWII it was a team of Polish crypologists (no, they didn't live in crypts...) who broke the incredibly complicated German code system called "Enigma." That it was actually broken seems almost impossible.This is one of the copies of Enigma made by Poles & distributed to Allied forces during the war, used to decode German messages. It was in the Podlasie Regional Museum, in Bialystok, and part of a larger display about the breaking of the code.
Arguably w/o Polish pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain & kept the Germans from invading Britain, & the Polish breaking of the Enigma code, Germany would have won the war.
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