Was Alexander the Great worse then Hitler

[Reverend Joe]

You're paying attention to a show called "hardcore history?"

...No.

[Oleander Ardens]

Extermination wasn't a unknown concept at that time, if usually restricted to all the male population of a city which failed to capitulate. Tyre is a shining example of Alexander's way of dealing with such cities. Not that he was the only one to do so.

OA

[Geoffrey S]

Did an ideological Alexander have all Persians killed on basis of their ethniticity? Was he hell-bent on establishing his own master race and preventing racial mingling? Did he make murder industrial? I think not. Certainly in the context of his time, he was no more or less lenient than contemporaries, and to judge his treatment of defeated cities on modern principles of compassion (which, as PJ points out, are a very recent development) is frankly absurd.