December 31, 2007: 10:29 AM EST
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) spokesman Monday said the company is cutting headcount in its finance department, confirming a Dow Jones Newswires report last week.
“We are reducing the number of staff in selected finance functions, and expanding the use of shared services centers where costs are lower,” he said. ” We have already six of these shared service centers (Phillippines, India etc),” the spokesman added.
But he clarified that “there is no plan to reduce staff numbers in a top down, prescriptive way…We are reducing the number of staff in support functions by outsourcing or using shared service centers,” for instance in finance and human resources, he said.
“But we are also increasing the number in engineering professions and other specialists. We have hired some 3,000 graduates and 9,000 experts since 2005,” the spokesman said.
Company Web site: http://www.shell.com
By Benoit Faucon, Dow Jones Newswires; +44-20-7842-9266; benoit.faucon@ dowjones.com
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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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