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Gernika - Genealogy of a Lie (Paperback)
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Gernika - Genealogy of a Lie (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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On 26 April 1937, a weekly market day, nearly sixty bombers and
fighters attacked Gernika. They dropped between 31 and 46 tons of
explosive and incendiary bombs on the city center. The desolation
was absolute: 85 percent of the buildings in the town were totally
destroyed; over 2,000 people died in an urban area of less than one
square kilometer. Lying is inherent to crime. The bombing of
Gernika is associated to one of the most outstanding lies of
twentieth-century history. Just hours after the destruction of the
Basque town, General Franco ordered to attribute authorship of the
atrocity to the Reds and that remained the official truth until his
death in 1975. Today no one denies that Gernika was bombed.
However, the initial regime denial gave way to reductionism,
namely, the attempt to minimize the scope of what took place,
calling into question that it was an episode of terror bombing,
questioning Francos and his generals responsibility, diminishing
the magnitude of the means employed to destroy Gernika and
lessening the death toll. Even today, in the view of several
authors the tragedy of Gernika is little less than an overstated
myth broadcasted by Picasso. This vision of the facts feeds on the
dense network of falsehoods woven for forty years of dictatorship
and the one only truth of El Caudillo. Xabier Irujo exposes this
labyrinth of falsehoods and leads us through a genealogy of lies to
their origin, metamorphosis and current expressions. Gernika was a
key event of contemporary European history; its alternative facts
historiography an exemplar for commentators and historians faced
with disentangling contested viewpoints on current military and
political conflicts, and too often war crimes and genocide that
result. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for
Contemporary Spanish Studies
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