Quite disturbing watching the Rob Rinder history of his family. You have to wonder at how many people just followed orders when they were so inhuman. Could you buy people alive?
I always remember visiting Mauthausen and being surprised at how close houses were to such a massive concentration camp.
Truth is there are people walking among us that are capable of this sort of behaviour, we just seldom see it. At least most of us don’t see it. But some of us do, our emergency services.
I then look at the aggression we see against the emergency services in protests. Yes they get in the way, yes they can be annoying. But they are the people that stand between us and real evil.
I hear the calls for defunding police in the USA and I don’t feel convinced that it is the right answer (I would suggest additional funding for training).
If the world were perfect we would not need them – but the world is far from perfect, and as Rob Rinder said, the mound over the dead of his family was not the only one in the world, there are many more and they are not relegated to the past.