Guernica in WWII

Guernica is known as the city that gained worldwide significance during WWII when Franco granted Nazi and Italian Fascist planes permission to test their bombs on the civilians of the town on April 26th, 1937. Approximately 1645 people died during the attack, which was described by Franco as intended to teach the nonconformist Basque population a lesson. The plaza pictured in the above photo is the site where the bombs were the most destructive.

Since the bombing, the citizens of Guernica rebuilt their town, and Picasso painted his iconic work, Guernica, giving the event even more international spotlight. However, Picasso was not the only artist who tried his hand at depicting the attack...