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Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3]
Guernica (/ ɡ ɜːr ˈ n iː k ə, ˈ ɡ ɜːr n ɪ k ə /, [3] Spanish pronunciation: [ɡeɾˈnika]), officially Gernika (pronounced) in Basque, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain.
Does anyone know any more about the journalist George Steer and the first reports on the bombing of Guernica? Captainhardy 05:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC) []. This site has a little more info than our George Steer article, including his first dispatch about the bombing.--killing sparrows (chirp!) 18:29, 19 May 2007 (UTC) []
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War.It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen.
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The German bombings of Guernica and Durango in Spain in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and the Japanese aerial attacks on crowded Chinese cities during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937–38 attracted worldwide condemnation, prompting the League of Nations to pass a resolution [16] that called for the protection of civilian ...
The Tree of Gernika is a personal account of the Basque campaign of the Spanish Civil War by London Times correspondent G. L. Steer.The book is known for its description of the 1937 bombing of Guernica.
Guernica was a clear target of the Condor Legion, rather than the Nationalists. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] The 11 July offensive against Bilbao was supported by Condor Legion ground units and extensive air operations, proving the legion's worth to the Nationalist cause.