It was, too, in Spain that the latter experimented with a view to its future blitzkrieg against France, and Guernica was the first example in world history of the massacre of a civilian population by massive aerial bombardments which was to become a terrifying model for what took place throughout the Second World War.
C’est aussi en Espagne que cette dernière a expérimenté sa future Blitzkrieg contre la France. Et Guernica fut le premier exemple, dans toute l’histoire, du massacre de populations civiles par des bombardements aériens massifs, mais deviendra un terrifiant modèle durant toute la Seconde Guerre mondiale.