The Wall Street Journal: Shell Weighs End Of Dual Boards As Pressure Rises
By CHIP CUMMINS
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 18, 2004; Page A3
Posted 19 June 04
LONDON — Royal Dutch/Shell Group said it is considering doing away with its nearly century-old, dual-board structure amid mounting pressure from big investors following the Anglo-Dutch oil company’s energy-reserve scandal.
Creating a single, unified board is among a number of options the company said it is considering to simplify its corporate structure. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. of The Hague and London-based Shell Transport & Trading Co. jointly own Shell’s operating companies, holding 60% and 40%, respectively. The company is run by a committee of managing directors, a group of executives who act as Shell’s top management body. The committee answers to separate boards from each parent company.
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.
