![]() ![]() The church of Santa Maria was largely untouched, as was the famous Guernica oak tree, where the kings of Spain had traditionally taken an oath to respect the rights of their subjects, who in turn pledged their allegiance. Many civilians were burned to death in their houses, while survivors who ran into the streets were machine-gunned to death.Īmong the few structures that survived unscathed was Casa de Juntes, the repository of a valuable historical archive. Fire and explosions destroyed most of the town’s wooden houses, its two hospitals, and its surrounding farmhouses and village areas. ![]() On April 26, 1937, Guernica, a Basque town in northern Spain with a population of about 7,000 people, was almost totally devastated. The bombing of a small town in northern Spain by units of the German Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). ![]()
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