Gernika (2016)

[sksvlad]

A story of Gernika, a Basque town bombed by the Condor Legion in 1937 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2556114/. Unfortunately, the movie is dominated by a fictitious love story based upon field presence of George Steer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steer, a South African reporter working for the Times of London. Nonetheless, the movie brings to light many good points, like persistent lying by the Communist side (suppression of truth about war progress and mass murders by the Loyalist side) and Soviet involvement and coercion (where is Spanish gold reserve anyhow?). Overall, the movie may be worth watching, especially on a snowy/rainy lazy day.

 

[Bellifortis]

A story of Gernika, a Basque town bombed by the Condor Legion in 1937 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2556114/. Unfortunately, the movie is dominated by a fictitious love story based upon field presence of George Steer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steer, a South African reporter working for the Times of London. Nonetheless, the movie brings to light many good points, like persistent lying by the Communist side (suppression of truth about war progress and mass murders by the Loyalist side) and Soviet involvement and coercion (where is Spanish gold reserve anyhow?). Overall, the movie may be worth watching, especially on a snowy/rainy lazy day.

Hallo,
that was a war in which Americans, British, Germans, Austrians, Swiss, French and others, fought together on the side of the Republicans in the "Brigadas Internationales"("International Brigades"). Songs, that were produced by a (later East-german) Ernst Busch, were published in the USA by the label Keynote Recordings in 1940, under the title "6 Songs for Democracy". The most famous of these (for germans) is probably "Spaniens Himmel"("Spain's Sky") sung with the choir of the 11.Brigade in Barcelona in December 1937. I just bought a reprint. You can hear the bombs detonating, as there was an air raid on Barcelona, when the recordings were made.
I want to use this opportunity to ask again for a sample of the very early (Model A / around 1934)(preproduction model, before the El.AZ.(5) ) Rheinmetall electric bomb fuze, which most probably was used in this war. Also I'm searching for this since many years, nobody seems to ever have seen one. It is mentioned in early US and british TM's.
Regards,
Bellifortis.