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    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...
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  • soldier, and flames. Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern...
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    municipality of Gernika-Lumo (Spanish: Guernica y Luno), whose population is 16,224 as of 2009[update]. On April 26, 1937, Guernica was bombed by Nazi Germany's...
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    The legion developed methods of strategic bombing that were used widely during the Second World War. The bombing of Guernica was the Condor Legion's most...
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    d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the...
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  • sculpture immediately after the bombing of Guernica on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. Shocked by the horror of the civilians' massacre, Iché...
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  • The Weeping Woman (category Bombing of Guernica)
    government. It was part of a series of works in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War on 26 April 1937. The bombing took place when Adolf...
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    of a suitable air force. On 26 April, the Condor Legion bombed the town of Guernica, killing 200–300 and causing significant damage. The bombing of Guernica...
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    re-planted in 1860, survived the Bombing of Guernica in 1937 but had to be replaced because of a fungus. The gardeners of the Biscayan government keep several...
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  • the 1937 bombing of Guernica. The film centres on an American journalist (D'Arcy) covering the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guernica, who falls...
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    The Blitz (redirect from Bombing of London)
    aware of the deadly power of aerial attacks through newsreels of Barcelona, the Bombing of Guernica and the Bombing of Shanghai. Many popular works of fiction...
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    The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during...
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    raids on Guernica and Madrid caused many civilian casualties and a wave of protests from abroad. It has been suggested that the bombing of Guernica was carried...
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    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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    operations. After the bombing of Guernica in 1937 and the Rotterdam Blitz in 1940, it was commonly assumed that terror bombing was a part of Luftwaffe doctrine...
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    image of the bombing of Guernica. After failed attempts to capture Brunete, the Republican military leadership decided to try a new series of offensives...
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    The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing, which became widespread in warfare during World War I. The bombing of cities grew...
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    from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved 2023-10-11. "The Bombing of Guernica: Could WW2 Have Been Stopped That Day?". Sky HISTORY TV channel....
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    Olof Palme (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
    bombings in Hanoi, comparing the bombings to a number of historical crimes including the bombing of Guernica, the massacres of Oradour-sur-glane, Babi Yar...
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  • Juan Larrea (poet) (category University of Salamanca alumni)
    about the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, Larrea visited Pablo Picasso in his Paris studio and urged him to make the bombing the subject for the large...
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    George Steer (category Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford)
    and his 1937 exclusive on the bombing of Guernica inspired Pablo Picasso to paint his anti-war masterpiece, Guernica. He returned to Ethiopia after the...
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    explosives inventor. Aerial bombing saw widespread use during World War Two. A precursor was the 1937 bombing of Guernica by the Nazi German Luftwaffe...
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    August 2019). "Bombing of Wieluń. Polish Guernica". European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Tadeusz Olejnik (2004). Wieluń polska Guernica (in Polish)...
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    terror bombing is used to describe the strategic bombing of civilian targets without military value, in the hope of damaging an enemy's morale. One of the...
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    James D'Arcy (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television...
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  • Ian Patterson (poet) (category Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge)
    book about the bombing of Guernica and the Spanish Civil War. He is also a translator: works include the final volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel...
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  • in Guernica Bombing of Guernica, an attack on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War Guernica (1950 film), directed by Alain Resnais Guernica (1978...
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    Wolfram von Richthofen (category Bombing of Guernica)
    Richthofen sanctioning the bombing was that two main roads being used to supply 23 Basque battalions at Bilbao intersected at Guernica. At least the 18th Loyola...
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    Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1937 in reference to the bombing of Guernica, Spain: Who can think at this present time without a sickening of the heart of the...
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    bombing of Rotterdam Bombing of Dresden in World War II Bombing of Guernica – German/Italian air raid that sparked international outrage Bombing of Tokyo...
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