On April 26, 1937, the Francoist regime perpetrated the brutal massacre of Guernica, with the help of the Condor Legion of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, killing 1,645 Basque civilians (video.twimg.com)

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On April 26, 1937, the Francoist regime perpetrated the brutal massacre of Guernica, with the help of the Condor Legion of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, killing 1,645 Basque civilians on a market day.

The town was bombed for over three hours by 40 Condor Legion fighter planes for the benefit of the cowardly Francoist murderers. The Condor Legion's Nazi fighters dropped thousands of 250-kilogram explosive bombs, thousands more 50-kilogram bombs, and over 3,000 incendiary bombs on the town—that is, they mixed explosive and incendiary bombs for greater destruction.

Furthermore, the bombers, having already unloaded their projectiles, flew low over the town and sadistically strafed the civilians who survived the bombing and tried to escape the massacre.

The Spanish Francoists and their Nazi friends, due to the fire caused by their incendiary bombs, literally wiped more than 70% of the town of Guernica off the map; 271 buildings were demolished. Their mission was total extermination.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2048353365881413632/vid/avc1/1920x1080/CUcSOb9WZwME-H-w.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2048353481572954515#m

One of the main perpetrators of the Guernica massacre, Heinrich Trettner, a staff officer in the Nazi Condor Legion, was protected by the US and UK.

From 1956 to 1959, Trettner became the chief of NATO's Logistics Department, thanks to the grace and influence of the land of the free, the land of Saving Private Ryan.

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Picasso's Guernica has a wide history:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-06-fg-guernica6-story.html

As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell presented evidence to help U.N. ambassadors decide whether or not to go to war against Iraq, there was one important thing they did not see: Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.”

A tapestry version of one of the world’s greatest antiwar works that adorns the wall outside the Security Council chamber was covered Wednesday by a blue curtain with U.N. logos. A U.N. commentary on war and peace? ambassadors wondered. Trying to avert a diplomatic incident, the U.N. spokesman explained.

When U.N. media officials moved a microphone where diplomats stop to talk to journalists in front of the tapestry to accommodate the crush of media covering Powell’s presentation, TV reporters complained that the wild lines and screaming figures on the tapestry made a bad backdrop. And in head shots, a horse’s hindquarters appeared just above the face of the speaker.

U.N. officials covered it, but they deny that they were intentionally hiding a symbolic statement about both the horrors of war and the art of diplomacy.

The work portrays a Spanish Civil War aerial bombing.

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