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[steveturk]

I think this is pertaining to the 2nd location:

It's connected to World War 2
It's connected with the Enigma machine and Alan Turing
It's connected possibly with a german high-ranking naval officer
It has to do with a U-boat capture in a historical event, or a naval battle.
The Enigma machine codes were captured on a U-Boat during several operations.
Fun Fact: Beatles stayed in hamburg where is a captured russian submarine at a naval museum
Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Alonzo Church are kinda connected in the field of cryptography, computer design device-making
There was a recent film - The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch displaying the events, maybe the OP got his inspiration watching it.
If the OP has a system with 3 different countries, and these countries are connected, the most plausible trio would be Germany-USA-England
or Russia-USA-Egland. If he means the Cold War it's probably something connected in Russia. Inspiration probably The Americans series  

I might be right or dead wrong but this is what makes sense to me.

well if somebody doesn't get the answer now, then i just don't know any more. Great answer, now give us the location!

[Wendigo]

Warsaw Powązki Military Cemetery

[steveturk]

I think this is pertaining to the 2nd location:

It's connected to World War 2
It's connected with the Enigma machine and Alan Turing
It's connected possibly with a german high-ranking naval officer
It has to do with a U-boat capture in a historical event, or a naval battle.
The Enigma machine codes were captured on a U-Boat during several operations.
Fun Fact: Beatles stayed in hamburg where is a captured russian submarine at a naval museum
Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Alonzo Church are kinda connected in the field of cryptography, computer design device-making
There was a recent film - The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch displaying the events, maybe the OP got his inspiration watching it.
If the OP has a system with 3 different countries, and these countries are connected, the most plausible trio would be Germany-USA-England
or Russia-USA-Egland. If he means the Cold War it's probably something connected in Russia. Inspiration probably The Americans series  

I might be right or dead wrong but this is what makes sense to me.

well if somebody doesn't get the answer now, then i just don't know any more. Great answer, now give us the location!

not sure the clues can get better than this post!!!

[Racey]

1. Wilmslow.
2. Princeton University.
3. Bletchley Park I said that previously,  cant be that.
4. University of Manchester Alan Turing Building.

[steveturk]

1. Wilmslow.
2. Princeton University.
3. Bletchley Park I said that previously,  cant be that.
4. University of Manchester Alan Turing Building.

incorrect, but good. multiple answers in a post makes it difficult to provide clues 

[Racey]

Is it in a building?
National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom.
Turing worked there.
I have been pondering over this good article, http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/cryptography_competition/index.php

[steveturk]

Is it in a building?
National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom.
Turing worked there.
I have been pondering over this good article, http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/cryptography_competition/index.php

very good answer but not correct this time

[Josepht]

I noticed that the 2 known locations have to do with the death of someone. Does the 2nd location also have to do with the death/grave of someone?

[steveturk]

I noticed that the 2 known locations have to do with the death of someone. Does the 2nd location also have to do with the death/grave of someone?

Death? YES. Grave? mmm not so much...

[Josepht]

My guesses:

1. The beatelmania museum in Hamburg
2. Sefton General hospital in Hamburg

[Racey]

Is it aboard the HMS Graph, (pennant number P715) was a German Type VIIC U-boat which was captured and used by the British Royal Navy during World War II. Commissioned as the U-570 in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in mid-1941, she was attacked and captured on her first patrol.

She provided both the Royal Navy and United States Navy with significant information on German submarines, and carried out three combat patrols with a Royal Navy crew, becoming the only U-boat to see active service with both sides during the war. She was withdrawn from service in 1944 due to problems maintaining her. While being towed to the breakers for scrapping, she ran aground on an island off the west coast of Scotland. Some of the wreck was removed as scrap but some wreckage remains there to the present day.

And here it is

http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=HMS_Graph&params=55_48_06_N_6_28_30_W_

[jackringer]

%90 clue about Heinz Edelmann.

[steveturk]

Posts #245 and #251 and #254 and #256 are practically screaming the answers out

[jackringer]

Baltic Sea - Wilhelm Gustloff ?

[steveturk]

Baltic Sea - Wilhelm Gustloff ?

sorry, incorrect.

further info on Wilhelm Gustloff - The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German passenger ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, officials and military personnel from Gdynia as the Red Army advanced.

[Racey]

Colin Grazier's extraordinary bravery not only made WW2 considerably shorter, but also helped to save thousands of lives.
The Nazis' thought the Enigma Code was unbreakable, just as the Titanic was believed to be unsinkable 30 years before. But the Titanic sank with the help of an iceberg, and the Enigma Codes were broken with the help of Colin Grazier...
He was 22.

Is it at this memorial ?


For the price he paid, Colin Grazier was posthumously awarded the George Cross, but the incredible sacrifice he made for his country was shrouded in mystery for years. The Enigma Code was a matter of the most crucial national security, and was kept secret until 1974!
Now, he is remembered each year on the anniversary of his death in his home town of Tamworth and if you head to the Church Square, you will find a monument erected in his memory, which is the focal point of the day's celebrations.

Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2009/10/13/colin_grazier_feature.shtml

[Racey]

Many German submariners who got caught during the war, did not go prison as we know it.
They were held in Grizedale Hall, now defunct, is that the place?

Liverpool connection:

In 1903 Harold Brocklebank, a wealthy Liverpool based merchant and shipping magnate bought Grizedale estate. He was born in 1853, being the third son of Sir Thomas Brocklebank, 1st Baronet. After the old hall was pulled down, Harold Brocklebank completely rebuilt Grizedale Hall in 1905, the interior design having been completed by 1907. The architects of the new stone-built 40-room mansion in neo-gothic style were Walker, Carter & Walker of Windermere, Cumbria. Brocklebank inhabited Grizedale Hall with his wife Mary Ellen Brogden, three daughters and two sons until his death in 1936, when the hall and the 4,500 acre estate were taken up by the Forestry Commission. After serving as the first prisoner-of-war camp in the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1946 the hall stood empty. Due to its high maintenance costs the Forestry Commission auctioned off the fittings, fireplaces and staircases and demolished the hall in 1957, leaving only the single-story adjoining building with storage rooms on the east side of the hall as well as the garden terrace. Some architectural remains of the hall like the walls and stairs of the massive garden terrace and the close with its gates can still be seen today, the car-park of the Grizedale Forest visitor centre being placed on top of the internal side of the former house.
Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizedale_Hall

http://www.bbm.org.uk/Grizedale3-opt.jpg

[paradoxal420]

 Moffett Field, CA? (where anti-submarine technology was produced).
Sunnyvale, CA? near the location of Moffett Field.

[steveturk]

Colin Grazier's extraordinary bravery not only made WW2 considerably shorter, but also helped to save thousands of lives.
The Nazis' thought the Enigma Code was unbreakable, just as the Titanic was believed to be unsinkable 30 years before. But the Titanic sank with the help of an iceberg, and the Enigma Codes were broken with the help of Colin Grazier...
He was 22.

Is it at this memorial ?


For the price he paid, Colin Grazier was posthumously awarded the George Cross, but the incredible sacrifice he made for his country was shrouded in mystery for years. The Enigma Code was a matter of the most crucial national security, and was kept secret until 1974!
Now, he is remembered each year on the anniversary of his death in his home town of Tamworth and if you head to the Church Square, you will find a monument erected in his memory, which is the focal point of the day's celebrations.

Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2009/10/13/colin_grazier_feature.shtml

You are so close you're almost on fire!!! but no it's not Colin Grazier

[steveturk]

Many German submariners who got caught during the war, did not go prison as we know it.
They were held in Grizedale Hall, now defunct, is that the place?

Liverpool connection:

In 1903 Harold Brocklebank, a wealthy Liverpool based merchant and shipping magnate bought Grizedale estate. He was born in 1853, being the third son of Sir Thomas Brocklebank, 1st Baronet. After the old hall was pulled down, Harold Brocklebank completely rebuilt Grizedale Hall in 1905, the interior design having been completed by 1907. The architects of the new stone-built 40-room mansion in neo-gothic style were Walker, Carter & Walker of Windermere, Cumbria. Brocklebank inhabited Grizedale Hall with his wife Mary Ellen Brogden, three daughters and two sons until his death in 1936, when the hall and the 4,500 acre estate were taken up by the Forestry Commission. After serving as the first prisoner-of-war camp in the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1946 the hall stood empty. Due to its high maintenance costs the Forestry Commission auctioned off the fittings, fireplaces and staircases and demolished the hall in 1957, leaving only the single-story adjoining building with storage rooms on the east side of the hall as well as the garden terrace. Some architectural remains of the hall like the walls and stairs of the massive garden terrace and the close with its gates can still be seen today, the car-park of the Grizedale Forest visitor centre being placed on top of the internal side of the former house.
Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizedale_Hall

http://www.bbm.org.uk/Grizedale3-opt.jpg

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