The Guardian: Shell ready for acquisition trail
Thursday June 23, 2005
By Terry Macalister
Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer yesterday raised expectations of a big acquisition to put the Anglo-Dutch oil group back on equal terms with BP and ExxonMobil.
Speaking at a press briefing about the advantages of now being able to launch a rights issue, he insisted “we have no specific target in mind” but pointed out that the last 100 years in the oil industry was a story of consolidation.
His remarks came as the prospect of a bidding war loomed last night for US oil group Unocal. China’s state-run oil firm CNOOC is preparing a counter-bid for the firm, upsetting an agreed offer of $18.2bn (£10bn) from America’s ChevronTexaco, sources close to the process told Reuters. A move would be the latest in a series of ambitious acquisitions by Chinese companies in the US and is bound to be closely scrutinised by American regulators.
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.
