This week marks the 86th anniversary of an episode that darkened the history of Goatjust like the cruel bombings that took place at the first light of the November 7, 1938 when the municipality woke up, went to school or queued at the walk.
Three Topulek plane The Republican camp crossed the town of Egabrense from the heights, unleashing its deadly charge which cost the lives of just over a hundred people (109 dead), leaving a significant number of injured and buildings completely destroyed. .
In fact, a year ago, an unexploded device was in the Spanish Square, where the Town Hall was located – today it remains in the same place, although a few meters further – and the food market, which at that time was already very busy with the public.
It is precisely these days that National Library of Spain has made public in its online catalog (see here), a collection composed of twenty previously unpublished photographs taken by the young natural photographer from Rute Cristóbal Velasco Cobos (Cris Velasco), of unusual harshness.
Until now, images of the bombing were known to this author, showing neighbors crying in the streets, half-demolished buildings, etc. Many of them were published in an Argentine magazine and their existence was therefore known.
You don’t know what he must have felt Chris Velasco by describing such a scene in which the chapel of the San José de Cabra Cemetery It became an improvised morgue in which the bodies rescued after the rubble had been removed were temporarily placed.
On the back of some photographs, what the scene represents is told on a typewriter, indicating in some that the people who appear lost their lives in the middle of the street. Another photograph included in the collection depicts a row of coffins about to be buried in makeshift graves dug into the ground of the cemetery.
Thus, under the banner of images with “sensitive content”, the organism dependent on Ministry of Culture distributes a collection that reads: “moved in 1980 from the Ministry of Culture to the National Library of the Ministry of Information and Tourism.” Civil War Section”, thus breaking the silence which enveloped the victims of what was called ‘Guernika of Subbética’except that when the bombing took place in November 1938, the Cabra area and surrounding towns were within hundreds of kilometers from the war front.
