ABSTRACT
The early history of Nazism in Germany may be perceived as one of the most important series of events of the 1920s. At the time, the two leading Nazi figures were seen to be Adolf Hitler and General Erich von Ludendorff. In November 1923, the Nazis staged what has become known as the Munich Beer-House Putsch. The putsch, which involved considerable loss of life, was apparently designed as prelude to a march on Berlin; but it proved a fiasco. At the German presidential elections of April 1932, von Hindenburg stood for re-election. His most serious challenger was Hitler. On 30 January 1933, Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor. The first Hitler Cabinet was by no means overwhelmingly Nazi. In the German cartoon, Goebbels and the Reich-presidential election, which was drawn at an early stage of the election, Goebbels, chief Nazi propagandist, is confronted with the enormous figure of Hindenburg.
