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The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths during the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria was called Operation Rügen. The bombing is considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenseless civilian population, although Madrid had been bombed many times previously.

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  • Bombing of Guernica
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  • The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths during the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria was called Operation Rügen. The bombing is considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenseless civilian population, although Madrid had been bombed many times previously.
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  • National Defense Junta
Date
  • 1937-04-26(xsd:date)
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  • Location of Guernica within the Basque Country.
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  • 300(xsd:integer)
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  • 990.0
Name
  • Operation Rügen
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  • Ruins of Guernica
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  • 1170.0
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  • 43(xsd:double)
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  • CET
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  • Spain Basque Country
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  • -2(xsd:double)
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  • Disputed
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  • Guernica
Location
  • Guernica, Basque Country, Spain
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  • The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths during the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria was called Operation Rügen. The bombing is considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenseless civilian population, although Madrid had been bombed many times previously. The number of victims of the attack is still disputed; the Basque government reported 1,654 people killed, although modern figures suggest between 126 (later revised by the authors of the study to 153) to 400 civilians died. Russian archives reveal 800 deaths on 1 May 1937, but this number may not include victims who later died of their injuries in hospitals or whose bodies were discovered buried in the rubble. The bombing was the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso. It was also depicted in a woodcut by the German artist Heinz Kiwitz, who was later killed fighting in the International Brigades. The bombing shocked and inspired many other artists, including a sculpture by René Iché, one of the first electroacoustic music pieces by Patrick Ascione, of a musical composition by René-Louis Baron and a poem by Paul Eluard (Victory of Guernica). There is also a short film from 1950 by Alain Resnais entitled Guernica.
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