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His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that ...

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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.