I have posted on YouTube (follow link below) a video which students of Shell’s descent to a position where their management is now held in derision and contempt not just by activists but also by the business world and by the community at large will I hope find useful. It dates back to 1996/7 when the degree of internal confusion about the company’s role in the world was visible to all of us in the company – wherever we were working.
This video (which I think is self-explanatory) is not a parody – it is for real. Essentially what it reveals is that those at the top had no understanding of reputation management and that they felt that a series of slick public claims about Shell’s raison d’être could wipe away the stains of years of selfish neglect. Remember this is now well over ten years ago – and since then things have got immeasurably worse.
To persevere with the obscene remuneration policy for the top management in a time of global economic meltdown, defies belief. Shell’s arguments to support this were not just inadequate – they were an affront. The years of lies and obfuscations in Shell’s corporate advertising are temporally in a lull – budget cuts the cause not sudden reasoned thinking! But look hard at the video and you will see a dysfunctiobnal corporate culture that simmers dangerously below the surface still and will not doubt reappear in due course. Be warned – and be very, very afraid!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Vk7R0ww0Y
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
