[tbontob]

Narrew, I agree with you when the dictator is a half-way sane individual.

I shudder to think what a insane dictator would do with WMD.

Many writers say that Hitler was not in his right mind at the end of the war. He blamed the German people for failing him in winning the war and was apparently so enraged by it that he didn't care if Germany was completely destroyed.

The reason given for Hitler not using mustard gas and other gases is that he was apparently gassed as a soldier (corporal?) in WWI. He found the experience so unpleasant, that he didn't amass any great amount of it in WW2.

But suppose he did amass a lot of mustard gas or had access to large quantities of WMD, would he have refrained from using them? We can only guess. He certainly didn't love the German people in the end because if he did, he would have surrendered months earlier in December when it became obvious the Battle of the Bulge would not succeed and he had little resources left to take the offensive.

In not surrending, he exposed the German people to untold privations. Only the intervention of the allies prevented a complete collapse. Later, the Marshall plan sponsored by the U.S. was instrumental in the economic recovery of Germany and other devastated countries.

It is scary when a person is so full of hate. When a person no longer cares, he is capable of anything.