Te Battle of Belchite, Spain

The Battle of Belchite refers to a series of military operations that took place between 24 August and 6 of September 1937, in and around the small town of Belchite, in Aragon during the Spanish Civil War. It's estimated that 5000 people were killed in 15 days and that the Republican militares made 2411 prisoners. The village was left in complete ruins. In the early morning of the 5th to the 6th the last defenders resisting in the town hall tried desperately to flee. About three hundred managed to cross the republican lines and of them about eighty reached Zaragoza. After 1939 a new village of Belchite was built adjacent to the ruins of the old, which remain a ghost town as a memorial to the war. "To achieve peace, courage is needed, much more than to wage war"-Pope Francis