Exactly 70 years ago today the Condor Squadron bombed the Spanish city of Guernica out of existence……
“Guernica, city with 5,000 residents,” the commander of the Condor Legion, Wolfram von Richthofen, noted curtly in his journal, “has been literally razed to the ground. Bomb craters can be seen in the streets. Simply wonderful.” Not a word was written about the hundreds of dead.
April 26, 1937 was a Monday, a market day. Thousands of people were out on the streets of the Basque town of Guernica when around 4:30 in the afternoon, the bells suddenly began ringing. Air raid alarm! The first airplane appeared on the horizon, a German Heinkel 111 bomber — in the cockpit was Lieutenant Rudolf von Moreau. When he was over the city center, von Moreau opened his bomb bay doors — and death rained down on the city.
We must know history to avoid making the same mistakes……chuq
If we had helped the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, then WW2 might well have been avoided.
Best wishes, Pete.
Now there is a ‘what if’…..would make a good post……chuq
I think England and France were too scared of supporting Left-Wing groups and Communists in the Republican Army. They sat back and allowed Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini to crush them, then got the Second World War as a reward for their cowardice.
interesting….never thought about it but it does sound feasible and possible…..chuq