There are some points in modern Greek history that raise difficult questions. With 70% of its pre-war Jewish population exterminated in Nazi camps, the country ranks among the top in this sad comparison, surpassing even the Reich itself. Are only foreign conquerors to blame for this achievement?
At the same time, during the last World War, a historical minority, the Muslim Chams of Epirus, were "cleansed" in the most absolute way.
These are not propaganda games - anti-Greek or pro-Greek - these are historical issues with crucial and multifaceted interest. The possible avoidance of answers, the avoidance of research into what happened and how it happened, undermines decisively our historical and political education and opens the way for new "unexpected" outbreaks of passions and crimes. Woe to the nations and societies that believe they are above and beyond history and that they are "by definition" sinless...