德国总统访问Guernica, 称1937年轰炸“野蛮犯罪”, 肯定了德国的责任。 German president visits Guernica, calls 1937 bombing a "brutal crime," affirming Germany’s responsibility.

德国总统施泰因迈尔(Frank-Walter Steinmeier)成为第一位访问盖尔尼察(Guernica)的德国国家元首, 这个巴斯克镇在1937年西班牙内战期间遭到纳粹支持的空袭, 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. 在西班牙国王和巴斯克领导人的陪伴下,他在受害者墓地放置花圈,会见了两名幸存者,并参观了Gernika和平博物馆。 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. Steinmeier将这次攻击称为针对平民的“野蛮罪行”,肯定了德国的道德责任,并强调了保护和平与人权的必要性。 Steinmeier called the attack a "brutal crime" against civilians, affirmed Germany’s moral responsibility, and stressed the need to protect peace and human rights. 这次访问包括观看比卡索在马德里的Guernica, 被视为纪念与和解的有力行动。 The visit, which included viewing Picasso’s Guernica in Madrid, was seen as a powerful act of remembrance and reconciliation.