December 05, 2006
Bryce Elder
Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, closed 6p lower at £17.69 despite suggestions that the group would be sensible to investigate a multibillion-pound union with one of its closest peers.
“The case for merging Royal Dutch Shell with BP or Total is compelling and overlooked,” ABN Amro told clients. “The creation of an oil mega-major would generate important strategic and financial benefits for the companies and significant value for shareholders.”
Bringing together two companies both worth in excess of £100 billion is unlikely to be a simple task. Antitrust authorities would need to be placated, requiring sales of downstream operations, such as petrol stations. Nevertheless, David Cline, the ABN analyst, thought that the cost savings would make it worth the effort. He calculated synergies in excess of $10 billion (£5 billion) a year, equivalent to an extra £10 per Shell share if the Anglo-Dutch group’ s management were prepared to cede control. The Dutch broker conceded that the City was not expecting such an audacious move. However, it saw enough potential in the prospect to upgrade Shell to “buy” from “hold”.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8211-2487025,00.html
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.
