Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for the Nazi War That Followed

Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for the Nazi War That Followed

The bombing of Guernica on this day in 1937 wasn’t just part of the Spanish Civil War but a show of Nazi Germany’s military might. When antifascist journalist George Steer uncovered Germany’s responsibility, it prepared the world for the terror that followed.

The Condor Legion and all its units in Vitoria used number 88 as an exaltation of Adolf Hitler and Germany came to ask forgiveness and pay for a sports car in the Basque town as a reliefReconstruction of the bombing: “The attack on Gernika has been a great success” This Saturday marks 88 years of the bombing carried out by Nazi aviation in 1937, which destroyed Gernika and reaped hundreds of lives.

This Saturday, the siren sounded again in Gernika to remember that, on April 26, 1937, the town was devastated by the Condor Legion and the Italian Legionary Air Force, serving under Franco, just as they had bombed Durango three weeks earlier. Numerous innocent deaths. It's impossible not to remember Gaza.

The photo has been forgotten for a long time. On April 26, 1945, Basque soldiers marched in front of the big theatre.

April 26th will mark the 88th anniversary of the Condor Legion and Italian Legionnaires' aircraft dropping 5,771 bombs on Gernika-Lumo, destroying hundreds of villages.