Conversation

On July 26, 1935, a group of anti-fascists led by William Bailey in New York City boarded the prestigious German ocean liner S.S. Bremen, tore the swastika flag from its jackstaff and threw it into the Hudson River.

"The first blow landed against the Third Reich by foreign adversaries, delivered without guns or bombs, years before America, or any country, chose to take military action against a regime that was already signaling its treacherous intentions."