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German president visits Spanish town of Guernica, hit by Nazi bombs in 1937

President Steinmeier viewed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's ‘Guernica’ at Madrid's Reina Sofia art museum on Wednesday. © AFP/Thomas Coex

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday became the first German head of state to visit the Spanish town of Guernica, where Nazi bombers killed hundreds of civilians in 1937.

The Condor Legion unit of the German air force devastated the northern Basque town on 26 April 1937 in support of General Francisco Franco's rebels during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.

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