It was market day in Guernica when the church bells of Santa Maria sounded the alarm that afternoon in 1937. People from the surrounding hillsides crowded the town square. " Every Monday was a fair in Guernica", says José Monasterio, eyewitness to the bombing. " They attacked when there were a lot of people there. And they knew when their bombing would kill the most. When there are more people, more people would die"....Read more...
On May 12, 1999, The New York Times reported that the German Parliament formally apologized to the citizens of Guernica for the role the Condor legion played in bombing the town. By contrast, no formal apology to the city has ever been offered by the Spanish government for whatever role it may have played in the bombing.
