What happened in Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War?

I take it that you are referring to the air raid immortalized in Picasso’s painting “Guernica”. That is it. There was an air raid. The Fascists claim that the Basques set fire to their treasured city. read more

The bombing of Guernica (Spanish pronunciation: ) (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out, at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government, by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen. read more

The Bombing of Guernica occurred on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). read more