Divinity And The Nazis

It’s hard to know where to begin in the matter of Rev. John Hagee, the fundamentalist whose endorsement of John McCain has now been rejected by the candidate because of his comments about a divine role in the Holocaust.
It is a valid argument to say that McCain’s relationship with Hagee is not the same as Democrat Barack Obama’s with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons Obama attended for 20 years without dissent until he became a presidential candidate.
But that’s as far as I go in siding with supporters of Hagee.
The comment he made about Hitler being a “hunter” sent by God to send Jews out of Europe (or in much larger part, off this Earth) and to Israel is a repugnant affront to divinity and a disgraceful sanctification of Hitler. It is natural for theologians to search for the hand of God, which they believe to be attached to everything, in the most evil acts. But we must take greater care when using God and Hitler in the same sentence.
How are those who survived the Holocaust, religious, secular or atheist, to think and feel when someone tells them God was behind their suffering? More likely, they envisioned the devil guiding the hands of their oppressors.
If the hand of God was at work during the Holocaust, it was not guiding Hitler. It was behind the millions of Allied troops and their leaders who worked furiously and with great sacrifice to topple Hitler’s war machine. It was behind the Righteous Gentiles whose humanity overshadowed their fear and compelled them to stand up for the oppressed. It was with the millions of Nazi victims who saved themselves, through acts of defiance or wisdom; and it was in the numerous twists of fate, small miracles if you will, that allowed millions more to escape. The hand of God was also lifting the spirits of the martyred to their rightful place at His side.
The hand of God most certainly was not guiding the vile Hitler and his minions, who defiled everything Godlike or holy on the Earth. To suggest otherwise is not only to sanctify the purest form of evil in history (how can Hitler be vilified if he was only a servant of God?), but to embolden contemporary or future racists with the false notion of righteousness.
If Rev. Hagee believes God unleashed Hitler on the Jews for a Divine purpose, he must also see the Almighty’s blessing behind contemporary terrorists and thugs who want to wipe Israel off the map. If so, what separates his thinking from al Quaeda’s?
The only rational theology is that God grants free will to all mankind to choose good or evil paths. When he does interfere, we must believe that it is to limit or nullify the harming of innocents, not to contribute to it.