I guess I don't know exactly what you mean by 'trolling.' Because if it's just being a smarmy jackass, that's as old as the human race. Here's a great example of some interwar period trolling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw9jYU_rJI
Yes, even maximum trolling. The story of Hessy Taft: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/07/the-perfect-aryan-child-the-nazis-used-in-propaganda-was-actually-jewish/