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Source: Jacobin

4/26/2022

Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for Horrors to Come

Journalist George Lowther Steer broke the news that the German Luftwaffe had provided the aerial destruction of the town, in what became a training ground for future Nazi attacks.