When Machiavelli wrote The Prince in the 1500's, I do not think that he intended his ideas to travel to the twentieth century. Some very important figures out of the twentieth century used basic ideals from The Prince to obtain their place in power. One of these individuals was Adolf Hitler. He used numerous Machiavellian ideas to win his respective place in Germany's government. The two most important Machiavellian principles that Hitler used were winning the people and how he dealt with cruelty and murder.
Machiavelli wrote The Prince as a gift to the Magnificent Lorenzo who was the…
