A large number of those who arrived in Auschwitz were taken directly to the gas chambers where they were killed. A smaller number was taken to the camps to work and some were kept alive to become experimental animals in the hands of notoriously ruthless Dr. Mengele."
Asked whether the genocide of Jews should become part of the history classes at the Greek schools, Professor Gotovos says, "The answer to the question is positive from a pedagogical point of view. Such a crime cannot remain unnoticed by education, nor any other genocide as a matter of fact. In the hope that eventually, although they say the opposite, history teaches us. If not all, then certainly many of us."