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On April 26, 1937, at 4:40 p.m., the Condor Legion of the German air force b
On April 26, 1937, at 4:40 p.m., the Condor Legion of the German air force b
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On April 26, 1937, at 4:40 p.m., the Condor Legion of the German air force bombed peacefully, undefended Guernica to virtually total destruction. It took three hours and five minutes. For the German high command, it was an opportunity for their. fighter pilots to practice saturation-bombing(饱和轰炸) and dive-bombing techniques designed to terrorize and kill fleeting civilians.
Photographers and journalists who reported the bombing described it as a violence of then unparalleled horror. Guernica was the first city in history to be destroyed by aerial bombardment. World War Ⅱ,for which the Spanish Civil War was a military dress rehearsal, would ultimately numb(使麻木)the world with its terrible destruction of Dresden and Hiroshima. While a contented world was unwilling to challenge the denials of France, the Germans, and the Vatican, one man decided to reveal the dimensions of the violent incident.
Photographs of the bombing appeared in Paris newspapers within a day or two. And Pablo Picasso, acclaimed by many as the artistic genius of our age, immediately began his preliminary sketches for the mural(壁画), Guernica, which he gave to the Republican government to hang in the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. Today, Guernica is widely hailed as the greatest political painting of the twentieth century.
Much controversy has arisen as to the specific meaning of the various elements of the painting. Does the bull represent fascism? Spain? Brutality and darkness? Picasso himself, never one to be bound by other people’s need for precise references, was no help. Critics have had a field day analyzing and explaining the masterpiece. What has never been in doubt is that the powerful mural is a symbolic, figurative painting made to express an exiled
Spaniard’s terrible rage at the agony imposed on a defenseless town of innocent men, women, and children. He was painting their agony, Spain’s agony, and his own agony.
A few years later, when German soldiers visited Picasso’s studio in Paris during the occupation of France in World War II, the painter handed out postcards of the Guernica mural to his unwanted and uninvited visitors.
"Did you do this?" one of the surprised soldiers exclaimed. "No," Picasso is supposed to have replied, "you did."
选项
A、the German pilots needed to practice their bombing techniques
B、Guernica was trying to attack the Germans
C、Germany was fighting with Guernica
D、the Germans had found that there were enemy troops in Guerniea
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据题干中的total destruction 定位到文章第一段。第一段最后一句说:这是德国空军为实行恐怖统治和屠杀当地平民而设计的一次轰炸机会,所以选A。由第一段可知战争是在Guernica不知情的情况下进行的,所以排除B、C。D未提及。
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