Financial Times: Mudlark: It’s a Shell of a tale
“some shareholders have asked what Moody-Stuart, who remains a non-executive director at Shell, was doing while the reserves debacle was unfolding.”
By Clay Harris
15 July 2004
Just when you thought no more surprises could emerge from Royal Dutch/Shell, there comes a curious tale.
According to whispers that have emerged in recent days, Walter van de Vijver, deposed head of exploration and production, was mulling the possibility of a move to Shell’s global rival, BP.
An incriminating message, it is said, was found in his Shell e-mail account after he was sacked in March. Could he even have had ambitions to succeed Lord Browne?
That would be rather odd. Before his downfall, van de Vijver was seen at Shell as having farther to rise; he was a frontrunner eventually to succeed Sir Philip Watts, who also lost his job in March.
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.
