7. The Casualties of Guernica Bombing
Until recently, the number of civilian casualties has been much debated. Because of the nature of the times, the left tried to use the horror at Guernica for propaganda purposes and they exaggerated the number of people killed and wounded. There were claims that many thousands had been killed during the raids on Basque Town. Modern research has led to the casualty figures for the raid being reduced and indicate that it was not as horrific as it first appeared. Modern research has concluded that the actual number of deaths and wounded at Guernica was much lower and between 200 and 300 people were killed in the bombing.
Until the modern time, it had been generally accepted that the number of deaths had been over 1,700, but these numbers are now known to have been exaggerated, by the government in Madrid. Historians now agree that the number of deaths was under 300. This means that the casualties inflicted on Guernica were much lower than in other cities attacked by the Luftwaffe during WWII, such as Warsaw and Rotterdam.