Picasso's Guernica (In Our Time)
1937 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the context and impact of Pablo Picasso's iconic work, created soon after the bombing on 26th April 1937 that obliterated much of the Basque town of Guernica, and its people. The attack was carried out by warplanes of the German Condor Legion, joined by the Italian air force, on behalf of Franco's Nationalists. At first the Na
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Around 1937
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)