Published: March 20 2007 02:00 | Last updated: March 20 2007 02:00
If Rijkman Groenink, ABN Amro’s embattled chief executive, is seeking tactical advice on how to handle activist investors, he does not have far to look. Rob van den Bergh, who was ousted as chief executive of business information group VNU in a shareholder revolt, sits on ABN’s supervisory board, while Jan Kalff, Groenink’s predecessor at ABN, is chairman of Stork, the industrial conglomerate that is also the target of break-up demands.
Earlier this month Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch energy company that unwound its governance structure a couple of years ago under shareholder pressure, announced its intention to appoint Groenink a non-executive director.
He will take the place of Aarnout Loudon, ABN’s former chairman, who is retiring.
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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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