untouched. Here the kings of Spain
long heaps of red impenetrable
the personal direction of the
used to take the oath to respect
debris.
Minister of the Interior, Señor
the democratic rights (fueros) of
Monzon, and his wife continued
Vizcaya and in return received a
Many of the civilian survivors
promise of allegiance as suzerains
took the long trek from Guernica
with the democratic title of Señor,
to
not Rey Vizcaya. The noble parish,
wheeled Basque farmcarts drawn
Bilbao
in
antique
solid-
church of Santa Maria was also
by oxen. Carts piled high with
undamaged
such household possessions as
except
for
the
beautiful chapter house, which was
could
be
saved
from
struck by an incendiary bomb.
con agration clogged the roads
rescue work till dawn. (...)
+infos
http://poieinkaiprattein.org/kids-guernica/picasso-sguernica/news-report-by-george-steer-for-the-times-aboutguernica-1937/
Ouvrages sur le bombardement de Guernica https://issuu.com/museodelapazdegernika/docs/hoja_vitrina
the
all night. Other survivors were At 2 am today when I visited the
evacuated in Government lorries,
town the whole of it was a horrible
but many were forced to remain
sight, aming from end to end. The
round the burning town lying on
re ection of the
mattresses or looking for lost
ames could be
seen in the clouds of smoke above
relatives
the mountains from 10 miles away.
units of the re brigades and the
Throughout the night houses were
Basque motorized police under
falling until the streets became
and
children,
while
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