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Podcast: The Danger Zone (DZ)
Episode: DZ Season 060 Part 3. Picasso, Guernica, Bull – The Media - Truth Without Fear or Favour.
Description: When von Richthofen ordered, and had carried out, the bombing of Guernica, he knew what he wanted from the bombing. It wasn’t to terrorise his opponents, the Republicans, or the people of Basque, or even just the people of Guernica. What he wanted to do was to block the roads through the town so that when the Nationalist Army attacked, soon after the bombing raid, the 23 Basque battalions, whose only escape route was through Guernica and over its bridge, would be destroyed. Did he get what he wanted?
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