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A photograph taken in this country depicts a woman wearing heels who kneels on a beach while aiming a pistol. In 2010, nearly 4000 smuggled photographs taken in this country were discovered in three cardboard boxes in a closet in Mexico City. Those photographs were taken in this country by the Polish photojournalist David “Chim” Seymour and a pair of Jewish refugee lovers who covered a war in this country using the pseudonym of a fictitious American journalist. The female German photojournalist Gerda Taro died during a battle in this country. The best-known image of a war in this country depicts a rifle slipping out of a man’s hand (10[1])as he seems to recoil from being shot in the head. For 10 points, Robert Capa may have staged his photograph The Falling Soldier during what country’s 1930s civil war? ■END■

ANSWER: Spain [or España; accept Spanish Civil War or guerra civil española or guerra de España; prompt on Catalonia] (The photograph of the woman wearing heels is Woman training for a Republican militia by Gerda Taro.)
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