At 4:40 on the afternoon of April 26, 1937, shopkeepers, street vendors, and shoppers in the town of Guernica,Spain, were enjoying themselves. On that sunny Mediterranean afternoon, the town’s streets were bustling. It was Monday market day in this otherwise quiet town, situated in northeasternSpain, in the Basque provinceofVizcaya. The weekly shopping day usually brought 2,000 people intoGuernica, swelling the town’s population to 12,000. Suddenly, the skies above the sleepy Basque town were filled with foreign aircraft. Military planes were not unknown to the Basques in the region. The Spanish Civil War was in its second year. The war had become intensely violent, pitting the forces of the Fascist general Francisco Franco against the Nationalist armies of the new but shaky Spanish republican government. [download]
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