Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:29 PM BST
MOSCOW, June 21 (Reuters) – An executive from Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile , Research) has resigned two weeks after a motivational email he wrote to staff on the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia was leaked to newspapers, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
“This is true,” a Shell spokesman in Moscow said, without giving details.
David Greer, deputy chief executive of Sakhalin Energy, the consortium running the $22 billion project, sent an email in which he said he despised cowards and urged staff “lead me, follow me or get out of my way.”
Greer’s memo was criticised for its aggressive tone and for borrowing heavily from George Patton, a U.S. general in World War Two.
The Shell spokesman declined to say whether the memo, first revealed by the Financial Times on June 5, was the cause of Greer’s departure. A Sakhalin Energy spokesman was unavailable.
During Greer’s tenure at Sakhalin-2, a huge oil and gas project on Russia’s Pacific island of Sakhalin, Shell sold control of the venture to Russian gas monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM: Quote, Profile , Research) at what most analysts said was a knock-down price.
The other minority shareholders in the project are Japan’s Mitsui (8031.T: Quote, NEWS , Research) and Mitsubishi (8058.T: Quote, NEWS , Research).
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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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