The Bombing of Gernika is an exhibition that offers a historical vision of the events that took place on that 26 April 1937 in Gernika, Spain. Reports of the events that took place in this city were highly controversial from the very outset. Witnesses of the bombing, together with the most representative personalities of the Government of Euzkadi and Basque society denounced the destruction of the charter town and the involvement of the German and Francoist armed forces to the world.
The Nationalists never recognised their responsibility, but conversely distorted the evidence and used the Francoist press to accuse the Basque republicans, who they called red separatists, of having provoked the fire in the town during their retreat towards Bilbao.
Today Gernika is an example of advanced reconciliation; the process has not reached its conclusion and the path is a long one. Recognition of the German involvement in the bombing of Gernika did not come until 1997, when President Roman Herzog sent a letter to the survivors in which he admitted the involvement of Germany in the air attack of 1937.
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