The information on page 5 of a current report by industry experts (Wood Mackenzie) speak volumes about the unappetizing legacy left by Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser who is about to take early retirement. Some say that like David Lawrence of Alaska, Voser was persuaded to jump ship?
By John Donovan
The information on page 5 of a current report by industry experts (Wood Mackenzie) speak volumes about the unappetizing legacy left by Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser (above right), who is about to take early retirement. (Some say that like David Lawrence of Alaska, Voser was persuaded to jump ship?)
On page 5 Wood Mackenzie cites a variety of failings, including a huge overspend in Alaska.
The highly informative Executive Summary Report on Royal Dutch Shell, available on subscription, contains positive, as well as negative expert opinion about the oil giant.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
