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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco's nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany's pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war.
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

6 Times Vandals Damaged Priceless Works of Art

Artworks are frequent targets of political protests, often damaged to attract attention, and many damaged pieces have been painstakingly restored over years.
History
fromOpen Culture
3 months ago

What Makes Picasso's Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol

Guernica embodies Picasso's outrage at the 1937 bombing and functions as an evolving, politically charged monument that mobilized international anti‑fascist awareness.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Bullfights, ballet and hot jazz: inside Picasso's scandalous theatre of sex and death

Picasso's Weeping Woman and theatrical practice show his dramatic art engaged with performance, bullfighting, and anti-fascist imagery, now featured at Tate Modern.
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