El caso “Gernika” en la investigación alemana de la postguerra y la evasión de responsabilidades

  1. Viñas, Ángel 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Journal:
Historia contemporánea

ISSN: 1130-2402

Year of publication: 2024

Issue Title: La "guerra sin guerra" (1936-1952)

Issue: 74

Pages: 369-385

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1387/HC.24907 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The Drum Report was an account of the Luftwaffe´s role in the Spanish Civil War. It included a summary of the bombing of Gernika.Some references to the Report are found in pioneering works by German historians in the 1960s. I have focused on the most important, that of Professor Manfred Merkes, because in many respects it has not been surpassed in subsequent literature.The thesis of this article is that Nazi aviators avoided telling the truth regarding their responsibility in the destruction of Gernika. At that time the U. S. Air Force, under whose aegis the report was written, did not object to that version because it was presented as an episode in the struggle against communism in the Spanish Civil War. By the 1950s the U. S. Air Force had spearheaded the rapprochement between the United States and the Franco dictatorship in the framework of a common defence against the Soviet Union.

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