Was Alexander the Great worse then Hitler

[Watchman]

There's also the little fact Adolf was a raving nutjob - and his lunacy was of a particularly unpleasant form, what with all that racial supremacy stuff and glorification of warfare even in the face of the incredible carnage of the Great War. Alex at most was a megalomaniac, but otherwise sane enough and not meaningfully more vicious than was the norm those days (the top names in the wanton devastation category being probably the steppe nomads - also back then).

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Hitler wasn't nuts, he was evil. There's a tangible difference.

Alexander the Great probably gets a lot better press because he was out conquering for and imposing a Western culture on distant Easterners. We (westerners) see more of our own culture in the Greeks than in the Persians. Also, I think he was more a product of his times (or acted more along acceptable social norms for the time) than did Hitler.

Of all the world leaders 1933 - 1945, only Hitler and Stalin went around killing their own people in any number. I'd say the systematic approach of either ruler is "worse" than Alexander's conquests.

Hitler's ideology was also centered around "removing" the Jewish problem. It's wasn't just "pro-German."

[Husar]

Hitler wasn't nuts, he was evil. There's a tangible difference.

I don't know about the others but I'm pretty sure Hitler was both.

[Marius Dynamite]

Hitler, I think, started for the right reasons which I agree with but went power crazy. You know what they say about absolute power.

Alexander also started for the right reasons. A huge empire was continously threatening his peoples freedom, so he destroyed them. I'm sure I heard though that Alexander was very tolerent of the Asians he conquered and infact wanted a merge of the Greeks and the Asians. His generals where very much against this and hated the Asians, thinking they were lesser than the Greeks.

Anyway I don't think Hitler was always evil. He was driven by hate of the Jews because he seen them as invaders taking all the Germans jobs, Germans who fought in WW1. You can see similarities in Modern day Britain, with Asian immigrants.

[Gurkhal]

I'll throw in my own opinions, and that is regarding the main question purly a matter of subjectivity. While the west adorns Alexander, if I've understood it right, and from what I've heard, in the east he is seen as a vile monster and butcherer. And so I will say that from my personal experience, Hitler was the worst of them. However I am also aware of my biased view and that other people, who historically had to feel the not so gentle side of Alexander, and probably were never touched by Hitler, likly have another opinion.

That is not to say that I can consider Alexander to be a "good guy". He was a person of his time, just like I belive that Hitler was a man of his, although neither of those can excuse the actions of either morally. I do not belive that either of them for long were primarly motivated by anything save the quest for power and glory, in which I think that Alexander took the leading in being lead, while Hitler most likly lisened to his hate to a larger degree. However one needs also to keep in mind that the people of yesterdays, both regarding the European 30s and 40s, but even more the ancient times, were vastly different from our own times in terms of ethic and moral views.

In short: Hitler was worse than Alexander, but that don't make Alexander a "good guy" in any way.