Guernica

I asked last night what was the most recent parallel of someone bombing one of their own cities. A reader comment in the NY TImes just mentioned Guernica in the Spanish Civil War, though of course that was the Nazi Luftwaffe acting as mercenaries for Franco. Also, that was in the midst of a civil war; Franco was the rebel, not yet the leader of Spain. But it’s a reasonably good parallel in other respects.

The reader also asks if even Hitler bombed any of his own cities, and I believe the answer is no, unless I’m forgetting an obvious example.