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In the late afternoon of Monday 26 April 1937, the small Basque town of Guernica was destroyed by sustained bombing attacks by Hitler’s Condor Legion and Mussolini’s Aviazzione Legionaria. The choice of projectiles was aimed to cause the greatest possible number of civilian casualties. The atrocity was imortalised in the famous painting by Pablo Picasso.

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