1937

The Basque town of Guernica is destroyed in an aerial bombing by German and Italian forces, in one of the most sordid episodes of the Spanish Civil War.
“Faces good in firelight good in frost
Refusing the night the wounds the blows.”

 

1936

Resistance fighter Buenaventura Durruti forms the “Durruti Column,”
the largest anarchist fighting force in the Spanish Civil War.
“The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
We carry a new world here, in our hearts.”