Episode #83: 1935 Timeline Twist & The Bremen Six

3/9/2026: On today’s episode, Valerie covers a triple violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, feeling the need for speed, new releases like Monopoly, Nylons, and the Wonderbra, top 1935 films, music, and amazing art depicting everyday themes of celebration and struggle, and a Great Gatsby style party during the tough times of the Great Depression, in the 1935 Timeline Twist. Next, Amy Jo shares a story about an anti-fascist plot to steal and destroy a prominent flag from a lavish party aboard the German-built ocean liner, the SS Bremen. After an exceedingly brief planning sesh at a local cafe, the Bremen Six boarded the ship, but things did not go as planned. It’s a fun and fascinating tale with some major cameos including FDR (and his grandchild).

Cover Photo: Illustration depicting anti-Nazi demonstrators attacking the German ocean liner SS Bremen docked in New York Harbor, United States on 26 July 1935 (Published in Le Pèlerin, a French weekly news magazine published on 11 August 1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdtaSenUVak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihwn2aYjGqI

Replica of the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird Land Speed Record car at the Lakeland Motor Museum, Cumbria, England. Nimbus227 - Own work

Life-size reproduction of a Hummel figurine "Merry Wanderer" at the entrance of the Goebel company in Rödental, Germany

Monopoly Playmaster (Electronic Monopoly)

The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera

Thanksgiving by Doris Lee, 1935

Spaso House, the residence of the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, U.S. Embassy Moscow photographer Valeriy Yevseyev. - U.S. Embassy Moscow.

Chandelier Room in Spaso House, 2010, Official photographer of U.S. Embassy Moscow Valeriy Yevseyev - U.S. Embassy Moscow Press Office

1930's photograph of the North German Lloyd's ocean liner TS Bremen (1929) arriving in an unknown port

Brooklyn Daily News

Bill Bailey

Roosevelt in the early 1930s

Model Bremen IV Junior at sea

Bremen on fire in 1941

The Agitator: William Bailey and the First American Uprising Against Nazism by Peter Duffy

Sources/Photo Sources

Intro Sources:

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Timeline Twist Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venizelism

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nuremberg-laws 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Products_introduced_in_1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_in_film 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_in_music

https://www.diegorivera.org/flowercarrier.jsp

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21727/thanksgiving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Christian_Bullitt_Jr.#The_Spring_Ball_of_the_Full_Moon 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1935

Timeline Twist Photo Sources:

https://www.diegorivera.org/flowercarrier.jsp

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21727/thanksgiving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Festival_at_Spaso_House#/media/File:Spaso_House_Exterior.JPG 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Festival_at_Spaso_House#/media/File:Spaso_House_Chandelier_Room.JPG 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell-Railton_Blue_Bird#/media/File:Campbell_Railton_Blue_Bird_Replica.JPG 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummel_figurines#/media/File:Porzellanfabrik-Goebel_Hummelfigur.jpg 

https://www.reddit.com/r/monopoly/comments/7lub91/a_relic_from_the_1980s_monopoly_playmaster/#lightbox

The Bremen Six Sources:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/getting-close-to-fascism-with-sinclair-lewiss-it-cant-happen-here

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blow-against-fascism-new-york-1935

https://takemeback.to/28-March-1935

https://www.historic-newspapers.com/blogs/article/1935-timeline?srsltid=AfmBOopwsYk2QPV3gFJcP-tw3-5nWWbh4ubLRCU1cmiPRultSsjlnEol#March

https://www.onthisday.com/date/1935/march/28

https://www.onthisday.com/date/1935 

https://takemeback.to/28-March-1935

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blow-against-fascism-new-york-1935 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/long-reads/bill-bailey/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/20/archives/world-rule-eyed-by-hitler-in-1935-schacht-told-roosevelt-aide-of.html 

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blow-against-fascism-new-york-1935

https://www.historic-newspapers.com/blogs/article/1935-timeline?srsltid=AfmBOopsCJRfrVE5zf9DqQjn1R8uLUA0196Hu7ggAmY42lr1zhyQZOy-

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/national-labor-relations-act-passed/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Won%27t_You_Come_Home)_Bill_Bailey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihwn2aYjGqI

https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/long-reads/bill-bailey/

https://www.larkspring.com/Kid/Book2/2-14.html

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blow-against-fascism-new-york-1935

https://socialism.com/fs-article/us-genocide-and-bigotry-helped-create-nazi-race-law/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bremen_(1928)

https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/bremen-iv

https://www.amazon.com/Agitator-William-American-Uprising-against/dp/1541762312

The Bremen Six Photo Sources:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/13_Modell_der_Bremen.jpg/500px-13_Modell_der_Bremen.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ss_Bremen_C1876.jpg/500px-Ss_Bremen_C1876.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bremen_(1928)#/media/File:TS_Bremen.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bremen_(1928)#/media/File:SS_Bremen_incident_illustration.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bailey_(activist)#/media/File:Bill_Bailey_1984.jpg

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/03/21/the-bremen-six-how-a-gang-of-new-york-troublemakers-struck-americas-first-blow-against-hitler-and-the-nazis/

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/03/21/the-bremen-six-how-a-gang-of-new-york-troublemakers-struck-americas-first-blow-against-hitler-and-the-nazis/#google_vignette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#/media/File:Vincenzo_Laviosa_-_Franklin_D._Roosevelt_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg