The Independent: Shell gets review advice
By Michael Harrison
14 July 2004
Royal Dutch/Shell stepped up the review of its much-criticised corporate structure yesterday by hiring financial advisers to help the committee undertaking the work.
Citigroup and NM Rothschild have been appointed to enable the board committee, led by non-executive director Lord Kerr to “deepen” its analysis of the options open to the Anglo-Dutch company.
Shell has already publicly stated that one of these options may be to abandon its dual board structure and switch to a unified board, as other Anglo-Dutch companies have effectively done.
The company has also declared that the review will result in the abolition of the priority shares in its Dutch half which are widely seen as a poison pill defence against takeover.
The company was heavily criticised at its annual meeting in June over the way the review was being conducted.
Since then, Shell said that Lord Kerr and his four colleagues on the steering committee had been in discussion with major investors.
Shell aims to publish the results of the review in November in time to put proposals for changes to its corporate structure and governance arrangements to its twin annual meetings in April next year.
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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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