Reconnaissance missions had been ordered as a prerequisite before raids around built-up areas on 6 January 1937. The intent of the order was to minimize ...
It was market day in Guernica when the church bells of Santa Maria sounded the ... on the edge of town, chosen in order to cut off the fleeing Republican troops.
The German bombers appeared in the skies over Guernica in the late afternoon of April 26, 1937 and immediately transformed the sleepy Spanish market town ...
Earlier this year, Luis Iriondo Aurtenetxea, who was 14 at the time of the bombing and saw Guernica burn to ash around him, spoke to The ...
The Bombing of Guernica occurred on April 26, 1937, during the
order to help him to defeat the left wing and democratically elected government. Hitler wanted to support Franco and his fascist forces. The bombing of Guernica ...
By the Spring of 1937, Guernica was just 30km away from the front line fighting of the Spanish Civil War, and lay within the focal area for the ...
Franco's aim was simply to terrorise those who did not support him, but for Nazi Germany, it was a chance to practise a policy of imperialism: how would the world ...
In the days before the bombing, Richthofen ordered Condor Legion fighters to strafe vehicles and other traffic on the main roads around Guernica—orders no ...
Who came to the aid of the people of Spain? Read what Robin D. G. Kelley wrote in the introduction to The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History: If we understand ...