What Are Hitler Machiavellian Principles

While leaders like Bismarck only used one or two principles like the fox and the lion analogy, leaders like Adolf Hitler used multiple of these Machiavellian principles to succeed in their rule. Adolf Hitler, who was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 would use many tricks to bring his Nazi party to power and to conquer a huge chunk of Europe during World War II (Hitler, Adolf 1-2). It is critical to know Hitler’s early life because that is what shaped him into the ruler he became. Early on, Hitler spent a portion of his life in Vienna where he worked with many politicians and writers such as Lanz von Liebenfels who was a strong anti-Jew (Hitler, Adolf 1). This might have been where Hitler’s resentment of Jewish people began. When World

Hitler used the unawareness and stupidity of his opponents to prepare for war and his ultimate goal, world domination. This was another one of Machiavelli’s principle, taking advantage of your opponents’’ ignorance. It also reflects how smart and sneaky Hitler was, representing another Machiavellian principle in being a fox. Hitler was also very cruel to Jewish people in his rule. He wanted a perfect country and he thought the way to do this was to get rid of all unfit people including all people of Jewish heritage. All the actions that he took to build a perfect Germany mirrored Machiavelli’s teaching of the ends justifying the means. Hitler created death camps called concentration camps, in which he would send Jews and all other people he deemed unfit to die (Axelrod 2). Horrifying experiments would occur in these camps as all the Jews and people there were treated like animals. Hitler believed that anything was okay as long as Germany would be successful. Through this, a lot of fear was associated with Hitler’s name which he was fine with. Hitler also showed how he thought all men are wicked in a critical move during World War II. In July of 1940, he told his army to invade the Soviet Union even though he had an alliance with them as “He became convinced that Britain was remaining in the war only because it expected Soviet support” (Spielvogel 859). Throughout his entire life, Hitler was convinced that everybody was out to get him and this caused him to turn on his allies. This move was detrimental as it would lead Germany to losing the war after he committed suicide in April 30, 1945 (Hitler, Adolf 3). Throughout his entire life, Hitler stressed his views of hatred of the Jews, men being wicked, and never surrendering to the moment he