At the Admiralty he was assigned originally to code-making and breaking but one look at him and the head of department reassigned him to something with a lower clearance where the work was mainly administrative. As Nat puts it, ‘He took one look at me and he must’ve thought, “Fucking Jew, I don’t want him on my team.”’
FFS, surely a mathematically talented Jew would be a highly motivated member of staff in a job explicitly about figuring out what Hitler was up to?
Discrimination leads inevitably to stupidity.