Financial Times: Royal Dutch Shell starts trading as single company
“For the first time in its 98-year history, Royal Dutch Shell will trade today as a single, unified company in London…”:
Wednesday 20 July 2005
By Thomas Catan and Philip Stafford
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For the first time in its 98-year history, Royal Dutch Shell will trade today as a single, unified company in London after 91 per cent of investors in Royal Dutch agreed to tender their old shares.
The company needed 95 per cent of Dutch shareholders to agree to the offer but it was able to invoke a clause allowing approval at lower levels.
The High Court also sanctioned the scheme of arrangement yesterday, the final step before a formal listing.
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.
