Business Week: Can Shell Put Out This Oil Fire?
“a devastating portrait of Shell as a dysfunctional company”: “The two boards should move quickly to find a successor to the 56-year-old van der Veer, who looks like a caretaker.”
By Stanley Reed (3rd May 2004)
Royal/Dutch Shell Group hopes that by sacking three senior executives and publishing a summary of an investigation by an outside law firm, it can pull the curtain down on the scandal over the downgrading of its reserves. But senior management and the board of the world’s third-largest oil company may be engaging in wishful thinking. So many questions remain that it is difficult to see how a reshuffled management team will be able to improve Shell’s lackluster performance.
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.
