The Observer (UK): No Brits, Dutch or Yanks – we’re Shell: “Who will become permanent chairman of Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant fallen on hard times?”
Frank Kane
Sunday June 19, 2005
Who will become permanent chairman of Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant fallen on hard times? The answer is no nearer today than it was many months ago, when Dutchman Aad Jacobs was first named as temporary head of the restructured group, but some worrying hints are coming out of the notoriously opaque organisation.
People in the know believe that Egon Zender, the head-hunting firm commissioned with the task of finding the right man, has been told to rule out a British or Dutch candidate on the grounds that would upset the delicate balance of power between the two nationalities. But in a more worrying development, EZ has also been told to rule out an American. Shell is a European standard-bearer, it is said, and must therefore have a European at its head.
Shareholders contacted yesterday view this extremely negatively. In one move, Shell is ruling out most of the oil talent in the world. It is suggested that Heinrich von Pierer, the 64-year-old head of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, is among the names being interviewed.
Von Pierer may be a great industrialist, and a damned decent chap. He may even swing a great golf club. But, with three-quarters of the world’s oil executives excluded from the race, how will we ever know? Shareholders should put the question to Jacobs at the imminent annual meeting.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1509546,00.html
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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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