From The Financial Times
By Joyce Dundas
Published: June 29 2006 03:00 | Last updated: June 29 2006 03:00
Shell Group has appointed Steven Fries as its chief economist to be based in The Hague.
Mr Fries joins from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development where he was deputy chief economist and acting chief economist.
He takes up the post on July 1.
He is knowledgeable on Russia, an important territory for Shell, and emerging countries.
Mr Fries is regarded as intelligent and meticulous, if a little reticent in his public pronouncements.
Joyce Dundas
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.
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen
I am Professor of Economics at the Central Asian campus of London School of Economics in Almaty, Kazkhstan. At the moment I am organising a major conference on ‘Instition Building and Economic Development in Central Asia’ in June 2008. I would like to invite Steven Fries as a roundtable panelist. May I ask you to provide his email adress?
Thanks and best wishes
Heiko Fritz