View from the Top – Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP
By Richard Milne
Published: July 3 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 3 2009 03:00
We’ve seen a new chairman at BP, somebody who’s not British . . . The Scandinavian Mafia is taking over. It’s extraordinary. You’ve got Shell, you’ve got Unilever, and now you’ve got BP.
Is it worrying that we can’t find British chairmen? It is worrying. I don’t want to be nationalistic about it and we are living in a global economy, but it is a little bit amazing, isn’t it? . . . It’d be interesting to see whether any Chinese or Indians would be appointed to those positions.
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.
