[Leica] Nathan's PAD 23/2/2023: explaining the past (and a proper Leica film photo too)

[Don Dory]

Well captured my friend.  Close enough that the plaque can be read for the
whole context.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:57 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> A proper Leica image this time—shot on film with the Leica M2 and
> developed by me. The background: on 25 May 1938, Alicante was the victim of
> one of the many war crimes during the Spanish Civil War. The city was
> besieged, and starvation was widespread. On that day, the attackers knew
> that there would be a delivery of fish to the Central Market, and so
> Mussolini’s air force chose to bomb the market—the objective was clearly to
> sow terror among the population, there were no military targets anywhere
> nearby. More than 300 people were killed.
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> Today the square is called Plaza del 25 de Mayo, and in 2013 a memorial
> plaque was installed on the pavement (the fact that it took so long after
> re-establishment of democracy in 1978 is another story). Most people just
> walk by, but I noticed a father explaining the meaning of the memorial to
> his young daughter:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7FBJMQn/A
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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