The Bombing of Guernica

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Sylvester Stadler

The Spanish Republicans may have lost the civil war but they and their Communist cohorts have won the propaganda war which still goes on today with British sources like the TV program mentioned above repeating this lie.

Perhaps one shouldn't expect much in the way of historical insight from anyone who picks a pseudonym from the bloody SS but even so ...

Let's remind ourselves of a few facts. Franco was in illegal rebellion against an elected government (not an institution an SS-fan might care for even though they tend to outperform totalitarian regimes on every count). Germany had not declared war on Spain. The Condor Legion was deployed under false pretences ("volunteers") in support of that illegal rebellion. It's very presence in Spain was illegitimate, it had no legal business bombing anything at all.