By Kate Burgess and Richard Milne
Published: June 1 2009 20:15 | Last updated: June 1 2009 20:15
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| Protest vote: Jeroen van der Veer, Shell chief executive, at last months annual meeting. Investors rejected a remuneration report that was to award directors 4.2m in bonuses despite missed targets |
Guy Jubb cannot remember when he last spoke out publicly at a companys annual meeting until this year, that is. Last month the head of corporate governance at Standard Life Investments travelled to The Hague from Edinburgh to look the board ofRoyal Dutch Shell eyeball to eyeball as he outlined his grievances at the oil groups attitude to executive pay.
The anger evident at Shells meeting pointed to a new determination among shareholders across Europe to be seen to hold boards to account, clamp down on excesses and stave off the political backlash that many see brewing against corporate greed.
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.
