Thursday 20 October 2016

Rightfulls and sinners.

Actually i am not reading nothing different to the texts of my career (A sad thing, i know). When i have some free time or the breaks between archaeology papers, i like to read about doubts that i have the history of the war. I am subscribed in Facebook to some pages about universal history, in particular about the World War Two. For example, i remember an article about the deploy of the german army in the Spanish Civil War, in the early 30’s of the past century. It’s called “The test war”, Germans and italians did participated in this war giving logistic support, airstrikes, training and modern gear to the ultra-nationalist spanish party, the Franco’s group side, creating a special group called “Legion Condor”. This fact it's important because the axis members did put in they first test fire some new weapons, technologies and tactics, for the eventual war with Poland and the URSS, that we know like the World War Two. They tested tanks in massive scale, airborne movements, new airplanes like the bombers that were used to bombing the Guernica town, strike that was portrayed by Pablo Picasso in his famous paint. The Franquist party said to the germans that in the river near of Guernica it were some republican fortified positions and that they need air support, given them the grids where to strike. Then, the germans bombers did destroy the whole town, killing and wounding a lot of civilians. Never was confirmed that were republican soldiers in Guernica, but that didn't care to the germans. They had tested they planes, ready for drop more bombs, now in the rest of Europe and in Africa.


Guernica paint, by Pablo Picasso


Heinkel He-111 Bomber dropping his cargo

2 comments:

  1. Wow! That sounds very interesting, I think that I would read about that sometime :D

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