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The bombing of Guernica — The Basque town’s destruction by the Condor Legion, 1937
On a market day, the German Condor Legion, serving Franco, crushed the town under incendiary bombs — the deliberate annihilation of an open town. Picasso, in five weeks, made of it the century’s painting for the Spanish pavilion of the Exposition, opened in July. (Editorial synthesis)
The bombing of Guernica took place on 26 April 1937. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The bombing of Guernica took place in Guernica. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The bombing of Guernica ended in the martyred town — and the Picasso painting it inspired. (source: Larousse)
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