Germany Admits Guilt Over Guernica
From Times Wire Reports
Germany’s president expressed remorse for the 1937 bombing of Guernica, making his country’s first atonement for what he called “the most terrible atrocities.” Roman Herzog sent a message to survivors of the German bombing raid--immortalized in a painting by Pablo Picasso--one day after the 60th anniversary of the first air attack on an undefended town in history. German warplanes dropped 100,000 pounds of bombs on the civilians of the Spanish town, killing between 1,000 and 1,650 people.
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