The Bombing of Guernica, 1. The Bombing of Guernica, 1. The German bombers appeared in the skies over Guernica in the late afternoon of April 2. Spanish market town into an everlasting symbol of the atrocity of war. Unbeknownst to the residents of Guernica, they had been slated by their attackers to become guinea pigs in an experiment designed to determine just what it would take to bomb a city into oblivion. It did not take long before this bloody internal Spanish quarrel attracted the participation of forces beyond its borders - creating a lineup of opponents that foreshadowed the partnerships that would battle each other in World War II. You already know Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica is among his most revered works, but do you know how and why he created the anti-war masterpiece? Le 26 avril 1937, les avions de l’arm O Grande Bombardeio de Guernica em 26 de abril de 1937 foi um ataque a By May 1st, news of the massacre at Guernica reaches Paris, where more than a million protesters flood the streets to voice their outrage in the largest May Day. Fascist Germany and Italy supported Franco while the Soviet Union backed the Republicans. A number of volunteers made their way to Spain to fight and die under the Republican banner including the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the United States. The Condor Legion provided the Luftwaffe the opportunity to develop and perfect tactics of aerial warfare that would fuel Germany's blitzkrieg through Europe during 1. As German air chief Hermann Goering testified at his trial after World War II: . Guernica is the cultural capital of the Basque people, seat of their centuries-old independence and democratic ideals. It has no strategic value as a military target. Guernica (ou Gernika-Lumo, nom officiel basque, ou Guernica y Luno en espagnol) est une commune de Biscaye dans la communaut The world was shocked and the tragedy immortalized by Pablo Picasso in his painting Guernica. We join his story as he and other reporters. Spanish road. He pointed wildly ahead, and my heart shot into my mouth, when I looked. Over the top of some small hills appeared a flock of planes. A dozen or so bombers were flying high. But down much lower, seeming just to skim the treetops were six Heinkel 5. The bombers flew on towards Guernica but the Heinkels, out for random plunder, spotted our car, and, wheeling like a flock of homing pigeons, they lined up the road - and our car. It was half filed with water, and we sprawled in the mud. We half knelt, half stood, with our heads buried in the muddy side of the carter. That seemed hours later, but it was probably less than twenty minutes. The planes made several runs along the road. Machine- gun bullets plopped into the mud ahead, behind, all around us. I began to shiver from sheer fright. Only the day before Steer, an old hand now, had 'briefed' me about being strafed. But don't get up and start running, or you'll be bowled over for certain.'. When the Heinkels departed, out of ammunition I presumed, Anton and I ran back to our car. Nearby a military car was burning fiercely. All we could do was drag two riddled bodies to the side of the road. I was trembling all over now, in the grip of the first real fear I'd ever experienced. They continue to the city of Balboa, where after filling his report to London, Monk joins his colleagues for dinner. His story continues as his dinner is interrupted by the news from Guernica. The Germans bombed and bombed and bombed.' The time was about 9. Captain Roberts banged a huge fist on the table and said: 'Bloody swine.' Five minutes later I was in one of Mendiguren's limousines speeding towards Guernica. We were still a good ten miles away when I saw the reflection of Guernica's flames in the sky. As we drew nearer, on both sides of the road, men, women and children were sitting, dazed. I saw a priest in one group. I stopped the car and went up to him. His face was blackened, his clothes in tatters. He just pointed to the flames, still about four miles away, then whispered: 'Aviones. Some of the soldiers were sobbing like children. There were flames and- smoke and grit, and the smell of burning human flesh was nauseating. Houses were collapsing into the inferno. They were wailing and weeping and rocking to and fro. One middle- aged man spoke English. He told me: 'At four, before the- market closed, many aeroplanes came. Some came low and shot bullets into the streets. Father Aroriategui was wonderful. He prayed with the people in the Plaza while the bombs fell.'. There hadn't been a single anti- aircraft gun in the town. It had been mainly a fire raid. It had been a refugio.. Bombardeio de Guernica . Foi considerada um ataque terr.
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