Talk:Rolf Johannesson

Calls to dump bust of Rolf Johannesson
On 21 April 1945, seventeen days before the end of the Second World War, Admiral Rolf Johannesson signed the death warrants of five men who had hatched a plot to seize control of the North Sea island of Heligoland and hand it to the British.

In May 2020, as Germany prepares to mark the end of the conflict in Europe on May 8, pressure is mounting on its navy to remove a bust of him from its impressive and aw inspiring officer assembly hall at Murwik, that is steeped in tradition, and scrap the Rolf Johannesson prize for cadets.--2003:D1:9702:52D9:1DB7:251B:B3DF:6230 (talk) 14:17, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hans-Jürgen Kaack, a historian and retired naval officer, said: “The Johannesson bust stands in the great hall where ‘role models’ usually stand. Johannesson is no role model. He doesn’t belong there. There shouldn’t be a ‘Johannesson prize’ any more. He behaved formally correctly at the time but if he had asked his conscience it may have told him, ‘You must not confirm these convictions!’ I accuse Johannesson of remaining silent about his behaviour in 1945. I call that a moral deficit.”--2003:D1:9702:52D9:8828:622E:C96B:DDD3 (talk) 17:33, 6 May 2020 (UTC)