Bombing of Jaén

The Bombing of Jaén was an aerial attack on the city of Jaén on April 1, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany, who fought for the rebels. The bombing of was ordered by the General Queipo de Llano, as retaliation for a republican air raid on the city of Córdoba.

The bombing
On April 1, 1937, six German JU-52 bombers of the German Legion Condor bombed the city of Jaen, which had not military targets or antiaircraft defenses. Current estimates indicated there were 159 deaths among the civilian population and several hundred injured, comparable with the Bombing of Guernica, which occurred days later.

Aftermath
As a reprisal the local republican authorities executed 128 Nationalist prisoners.