Emperor Palpatine had innumerable plans in place throughout ... This truly was a great form of irony, as Palpatine had long attempted to anticipate where Darth Vader's betrayal—a staple of ...
But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany.