Financial Times: Score of Shell
Published: May 11 2004
Here’s a clue from Royal Dutch/Shell that, in the face of demands by some investors for a governance overhaul, any change is unlikely to shift the balance of power at the oil giant.
Jeroen van der Veer, appointed chairman two months ago after its incredible shrinking reserves brought the departure of Sir Philip Watts, tiptoed around the issue when grilled on a Dutch chat-show.
Having said it would be wrong to speculate on the outcome due next month of a review of the group’s century-old dual-board structure, Van der Veer seemed to do just that.
A contest between the UK side, which owns 40 per cent of Shell, and the Dutch, who control 60 per cent, would of course end “in a 6-4 victory for the Netherlands”, he forecast.
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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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