Royal Dutch Shell News Tuesday 20 April, 2004
The Independent: Shell hopes to draw line under fiasco of reserves
The Independent: Lies, cover-ups, fat cats and an oil giant in crisis
The Independent: Revealed: the bitter power battle that put Shell in the firing line
The Independent: Shell’s whodunnit script is worthy of fiction
The Independent: How a sure thing became a City liability
The Times: Big reservations remain at Shell
The Times: Deceitful Shell ‘needs ten years’ to rebuild exploration business
The Times: Unravelling of the cover-up
FT: Human failings and hyperbolic e-mails
TheGlobeandMail.com: Shell executives hid shortfall for years
The Guardian: Shell admits it misled investors
The Guardian: Trail of emails reveals depths of deceit at the heart of Shell
The New York Times: Shell’s Report on Its Troubles Cites Discord at Top: “The report also noted that last December, Mr. van de Vijver sent an e-mail message directing a subordinate, Frank Coopman, to destroy a document Mr. Coopman had produced that concluded that the company was “under a legal obligation” to immediately correct overstatements of its proven reserves.”: “Our story is not one anyone would be proud of, and we have no excuses,” said Lord Ron Oxburgh, chairman of Shell Transport and Trading, the British half of Royal Dutch/Shell (19 April 04)
London Evening Standard: Shell may have single London base
TheMiamiHerald.com: Lawyer: Shell Exec Fought Estimate Errors
The Scotsman: Shell admits reserve ‘lies’
Edinburgh Evening News: Damning report shows Shell hid reserves shortfalls
The Scotsman: Shell implodes as e-mails provide damning evidence
Financial Times: Unsure of Shell
Financial Times: Observer Column: Shell-shocked (Corporate slogans consigned to the dustbin of history no. 94: “You can be sure of Shell.”)Financial Times: US regulators ready to get to grips with internal report
Financial Times: SHELL SHOCK: Shareholders step up calls for structural reform
Financial Times: Shell puts crisis blame on ‘human failings’
The Times: What next for . . .
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Dutch/Shell Group exec was ‘sick and tired’ of lying
The Daily Telegraph: Commanders scuffled while Shell sailed blindly on…
Daily Telegraph: Who’s sorry now
Daily Telegraph: Memos expose Shell’s years of lying
Financial Times: UK nuclear chief seen as Shell candidate
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.
