If God could have stopped Hitler from killing innocent people why didn’t he do so?

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So if God could have stopped a dictator for killing innocent people, why does God not stop it? The seeker is to the fundamental question, why do we exist at all? God has given us free will by which we can all reciprocate love and rejoice in the reciprocation of love. Many parents, sometimes when the children disobey them, the parents feel frustrated. But no matter how, if you ask those parents, instead of having a child, would you like to have a robo who always obeys you? No parent will want that.
And free will has no meaning without the facility to execute that free will. If the government says, I give you free will and I put you in this cellar, in this jail, small narrow chamber, you have your free will. What is the meaning of the free will? So free will means there has to be.
So can Krishna stop? We understand that God is by removing the external source of suffering or sometimes he may cure the suffering by giving us inner strength. If God started intervening whenever anyone started doing anything wrong, then he would have to stop, he would have to take people’s free will away or the free will would basically become a mockery because you are not given the facility to execute the free will. So therefore, God does not do that.
Now of course, that person is also under karma and eventually when their good karma runs out, they will not only not be able to do whatever atrocious things they were doing, but they will also not be able to continue. So they will also have to bear the karmic reaction for all the bad that they have done. So Krishna allows us to act for as long as our karma allows us to act, for as long as our karma is there.
But beyond that, he checks us and then he makes us. So that’s how it works.