One day in late 1936, photojournalist Robert Capa paused on a street in southeast Madrid and took a picture that would echo around the world and down through the decades. His photo showed three children sitting amid rubble in the working-class Vallecas district of the Spanish capital, in front of a house pitted with shrapnel from bombs dropped by Italian and German fascist forces in support of Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War. The image captured the civilian cost of the war and rallied international volunteers to the anti-fascist cause. But now a dispute has broken out over what to do with the house at the center of the picture.

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