Couldn't they just be bad people? Or are we blaming everything bad on the Devil and giving credit for all that is good to God?
Bingo... and bingo.
Could be, but that's not the point.
If one presumes that "possession" is in fact possible, Fr Amorth suggestion of possession doesn't somehow shift the guilt off Hitler or Stalin...that's not how possession works. The Devil or a demon can't just possess a person...the person being possessed must consent. In fact, it is a contractual relationship and there is a quid pro quo.
Certain of Hitler's contemporaries thought he had tapped too deeply into the occult and that he seemed to become another person entirely at certain times (during the delivery of speeches for example). I don't know about Stalin, but of the biographies I have read of Hitler, he certainly seems to be the type that would cut a deal with the Devil if the opportunity arose.
Sounds like SanFranciscoSpeak...
They weren't "Bad People"; they were the personification of EVIL on earth....
If anyone was ever possessed by satan, these two were....