Munich, of course, was also one of the favourite stomping grounds of the NSDAP and as the leader of that fringe party, Hitler hoped to gain added attention by crossing swords with Stresemann. The voters of Bavaria were thus offered a dramatic choice between Stresemann’s conception of Germany’s future, based on four years of peaceful ‘economic revisionism’, and Hitler’s sweeping rejection of the foundations of Weimar’s foreign and economic policy.

