The Scotsman: Shell faces twin-pronged attack
NICK BEVENS
BUSINESS EDITOR
28 June 2004
OIL giant Royal Dutch/Shell holds simultaneous annual general meetings in London and The Hague today, facing what could be a massive investor defeat on two key motions which ask shareholders to absolve directors from responsibility for the company’s recent troubles.
Shareholder mood will be further darkened by Friday’s news that former chairman Sir Philip Watts, who quit in the wake of the oil and gas reserve estimates scandal earlier this year, has just been given a pay-off worth just over £1 million. Shell is 60 per cent owned by Royal Dutch Petroleum, with the rest held by Shell Transport. About 25 per cent of Royal Dutch stock is owned by US-based investors, and in The Hague they are understood to be following the recommendation of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the influential proxy voting service, which has called for a vote against “discharging” directors – led by Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s president – from their legal liabilities.
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.
