| Germany could never have absorbed an attack by the Soviet Union and counterattacked, they simply did not have the manpower, equipment, or geography, plus winters in Germany are not as severe as those in Russia, which was what ultimately stopped the Germans in 1941. The Eastern Front was a war of attrition and the larger, more populous nation will always win that kind of war.
As for why Hitler is a villian and Alexander remembered as a great conqueror, that's simple, times have changed. Back in the days of Alexander many of his actions were simply the norms of the day, you fought to win, conquered peoples had no rights, everyone played by the same rules. However the rules changed between Alexander's reign and Hitler's rise to power, killing 12 million people just wasn't acceptable in the 20th century.
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