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On 1 April 1937, at 17:20, the Spanish city of Jaén, one of the few areas in Andalusia under Republican control at that point of the Civil War, was bombed by 6 German bombers. The bombers made a single raid over the city, in which an estimated 150 people were killed.
Bombardowanie Guerniki – atak lotniczy przeprowadzony na baskijskie miasto Guernika 26 kwietnia 1937 roku w czasie wojny domowej w Hiszpanii przez lotnictwo niemieckiego Legionu Condor oraz 3 samoloty włoskich sił powietrznych.
19 paź 2024 · Guernica, large oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso named for the Spanish city that German aircraft bombed in 1937. The work received mixed reviews when it was shown at the world’s fair in Paris, but it became an icon as it traveled the world in ensuing years.
The bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War heralded a terrible new age of warfare. But who was the main culprit – Hitler or Franco? Paul Preston considers the evidence. Modern barbarism. Pablo Picasso’s searing interpretation of the bombing of Guernica on 26 April 1937.
The bombing of Gernika is largely remembered because it signalled the start of the systematic attack on civilians as a strategy of war, a kind of rehearsal of the so-called ‘total war’ against the population.
13 maj 2017 · Flying in three-plane wedges, the Ju 52s dropped a mix of high explosive and incendiary bombs on Guernica for approximately fifteen minutes, while the escorting fighters strafed ground targets in and around the town. Departing the area, the bombers returned to base as the town burned.
1 lis 2013 · The bombing of Gernika was the first intentional aerial destruction of a city, a city targeted not for its military value—it had none—but deliberately to terrorize its civilian population.
