"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."
"On Friday, Frank-Walter Steinmeier became the first German head of state to travel to Guernica, where he joined King Felipe VI of Spain in a remembrance ceremony held in a cemetery in the town and laid a wreath for the victims. The pair then visited Guernica's Museum of Peace, where they met two survivors of the attack, Crucita Etxabe and Maria del Carmen Aguirre."
Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour victims of the 26 April 1937 bombing and to urge that the crimes are never forgotten. On that day planes from the German Condor Legion, operating with fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day, killing and injuring hundreds. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to General Francisco Franco's nationalist forces to support their coup and to allow pilots to practise blitzkrieg tactics later used in the second world war. Pablo Picasso immortalised the destruction in his large monochrome canvas Guernica. Steinmeier joined King Felipe VI in a cemetery remembrance, laid a wreath, visited the Museum of Peace, met two survivors, and described the events as terrible crimes.
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