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1937
Nazis test Luftwaffe on Guernica
During the Spanish Civil War, the German military tests its
powerful new air force-the Luftwaffe-on the Basque town of
Guernica in northern Spain.
Although the independence-minded Basque region opposed General
Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War,
Guernica itself was a small rural city of only 5,000 inhabitants
that declared nonbelligerence in the conflict. With Franco's
approval, the cutting-edge German aircraft began their unprovoked
attack at 4:30 p.m., the busiest hour of the market day in
Guernica. For three hours, the German planes poured down a
continuous and unopposed rain of bombs and gunfire on the town
and surrounding countryside. One-third of Guernica's 5,000
inhabitants were killed or wounded, and fires engulfed the city
and burned for days.
The indiscriminate killing of civilians at Guernica aroused world
opinion and became a symbol of fascist brutality. Unfortunately,
by 1942, all major participants in World War II had adopted the
bombing innovations developed by the Nazis at Guernica, and by
the war's end, in 1945, millions of innocent civilians had
perished under Allied and Axis air raids.
73 - K.O., n0kfq
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