I know that a lot of you out there are probably not too familiar with or indeed interested in Hitler’s deputy and I suspect I probably would have felt exactly the same if it hadn’t been for my father’s “connection”.

The Second Boer War took place in British controlled South Africa from 1899 to 1902. The war took place between the British Empire and two Boer Republics - the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.

In 1940 Enigma revealed that Hitler had abandoned Operation Sea Lion, his planned invasion of Britain; the next year Enigma helped British warships destroy the battleship Bismarck. When British and American commanders discovered Rommel’s plans, Allied bombers were able to destroy some of the ships carrying Rommel’s troops to North Africa.