Financial Times: Observer: It doesn’t add up
“Even the commemorative mug given to shareholders as they left the meeting was a collector’s item of inaccuracy. Shell Transport and Trading’s lifetime was given as 1907-2005. In fact, it was born in 1897.”
Wednesday 29 June 2005
Published: June 29 2005
Shell demonstrated an admirable candour by including two of its reserves restatements in the illustrated display about the company’s meeting at the annual meeting.
Other parts of the timeline, alas, were chronologically challenged. The Wright Brothers’ first flight was attributed to 1900, three years too early. And the date of the alliance with Royal Dutch was shown as 1904, when it actually took place in 1907.
Even the commemorative mug given to shareholders as they left the meeting was a collector’s item of inaccuracy. Shell Transport and Trading’s lifetime was given as 1907-2005. In fact, it was born in 1897. [email protected]
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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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