Qualla: Bombing of Granollers https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/s/bombing-of-granollers-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bombing of Granollers https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers Bombing of Granollers: Introduction https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Five bombers. One town. Up to 224 people dead, most of them women and children. The bombing of Granollers on May 31, 1938, lasted minutes, but it distilled the logic of the Spanish Civil War's air campaigns into a single, concentrated atrocity. The Italian Aviazione Legionaria, flying on behalf of Franco's Nationalist forces, dropped their payloads on a town with no military significance. When British officers investigated afterward, they reported what anyone looking at the rubble could see: the bombing had been aimed at non-military targets. The international response was outrage, protest, and ultimately nothing.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/s/bombing-of-granollers-wp/sp3s-bombing-of-granollers-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bombing of Granollers: The War from Above https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers/ Photo credit Herodotptlomeu, CC BY-SA 4.0. By May 1938, the strategy of terror bombing had become deliberate policy for Franco and his foreign allies. The Nationalists sought to destroy Republican maritime commerce and, more importantly, Republican morale. To achieve this, Franco authorized both the Italian Aviazione Legi...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/s/bombing-of-granollers-wp/sp3s-bombing-of-granollers-the-war-from-above.mp3 0:06 2 full Bombing of Granollers: Thirty-One Days After a Promise https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers/ Photo credit Photograph by Bates Winifred, Public domain. The timing made the bombing particularly cynical. On April 16, 1938 -- just six weeks before the attack -- Italy and Britain had signed the Anglo-Italian Pact, in which Italy agreed to withdraw its troops from Spain once the war ended and both countries pledged to maintain the st...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/s/bombing-of-granollers-wp/sp3s-bombing-of-granollers-the-dead-of-granollers.mp3 0:06 4 full Bombing of Granollers: Outrage Without Consequence https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers/ Photo credit Photograph by Bates Winifred, Public domain. The British government protested to Burgos, Berlin, and Rome. The Vatican added its voice. These were not trivial gestures -- diplomatic protests from a major power and the Holy See carried weight, at least in theory. Italy's Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, responded with chara...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/s/bombing-of-granollers-wp/sp3s-bombing-of-granollers-outrage-without-consequence.mp3 0:06 5 full Bombing of Granollers: A Town That Remembers https://qualla.com/bombing-of-granollers/ Photo credit Antoni Serra, CC BY-SA 3.0. Granollers has not forgotten May 31, 1938. The town maintains a peace museum, the Can Jonch Centre de Cultura per la Pau, dedicated to the memory of the bombing and to broader themes of conflict and reconciliation. Annual commemorations mark the anniversary, and the sixty-eighth ...

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