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flag German president visits Guernica, calls 1937 bombing a "brutal crime," affirming Germany’s responsibility.

flag German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier became the first German head of state to visit Guernica, the Basque town devastated in a 1937 Nazi-backed air raid during Spain’s civil war. flag Accompanied by Spain’s king and Basque leaders, he laid a wreath at a victims’ cemetery, met two survivors, and visited the Gernika Peace Museum. flag Steinmeier called the attack a "brutal crime" against civilians, affirmed Germany’s moral responsibility, and stressed the need to protect peace and human rights. flag The visit, which included viewing Picasso’s Guernica in Madrid, was seen as a powerful act of remembrance and reconciliation.

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