The ruins of Guernica, the first casualty of the Luftwaffe.
October 07, 2011, 4:17pm / 78
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Volunteer Luftwaffe pilots and their plane, known as the Condor Legion, in the Spanish Civil War.
October 07, 2011, 3:17pm / 12
unsubstantiatedrumors replied to your photo: During the Spanish Civil War a brigade of American…
Wasn’t George Orwell in the Lincoln Brigade ?
No, but he along with Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso supported them and the Spanish Republicans.
October 07, 2011, 2:35pm / 7
During the Spanish Civil War a brigade of American volunteers fighting for the Spanish Republican forces (against Franco’s Spanish Nationalists) were known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. However, as the Civil War went on, the term “Lincoln Brigade” began to be applied to anything with an American component.
October 07, 2011, 2:23pm / 25
The commander of the Italian garrison surrenders to Capt. G.R. Coderre of Sherbrooke, Quebec.
October 06, 2011, 11:20pm / 13
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