The German Condor Legion Air Raid on the Basque Town of Guernica on Market Day 26 April 1937 That Killed Perhaps 300 Civilians and Produced Picasso's Painting
The German Condor Legion's bombers attacked the small Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain on the afternoon of 26 April 1937 — a market day. The attack killed approximately 250-300 civilians and destroyed about 75 percent of the buildings. Pablo Picasso's monumental painting Guernica, completed two months later, became the canonical 20th-century anti-war image.
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