Financial Times: Observer: Shell-shocked
The chairman of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant told yesterday’s strategy meeting that things had got so bad that even those French upstarts at Total had been rumoured to be considering a bid.
Posted 24 Sept 04
Pity poor Jeroen van der Veer, who has had to watch the reputation of his beloved Royal Dutch/Shell take such a pounding since the start of the year. The chairman of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant told yesterday’s strategy meeting that things had got so bad that even those French upstarts at Total had been rumoured to be considering a bid.
This would never have happened in the good old days before the reserves scandal and clearly showed how much work Shell has to do to restore its battered credibility, van der Veer said.
Total has meanwhile ruled itself out of a bid for Shell.
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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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