The Trauma of the Spanish Civil War

The 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, by the German Condor Legion, always comes up. This is not because it was the only or the most damaging aerial bombing of the war but because the left chose it as the focus of a propaganda campaign. The inept and mendacious nationalist response made things worse for the nationalists. How many Spaniards died in the war? All in, maybe 350,000 by violence, including battle deaths, executions, and civilian deaths.