By Anne-Sylvaine Chassany and Fred Pals
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which is seeking to focus on exploration and production, may sell its liquefied petroleum gas distribution unit, four people with knowledge of the plan said.
Shell hired Credit Suisse Group AG to manage a sale of the division, which is valued at more than 800 million euros ($1.1 billion), said three of the people, who declined to be identified because the talks are private. The company sent information last week to potential bidders including private equity firms, they said. Rainer Winzenried, a spokesman for The Hague-based Shell, declined to comment.
Shell aims to save $1 billion this year and will cut 1,000 more jobs in an effort to weather the economic slowdown, which has led to high inventories of fuels like gasoline and diesel in the U.S. and Europe. Shell processed 9 percent less crude in 2009 and is in talks to sell its U.K. Stanlow refinery and two German plants to Indias Essar Oil Ltd.
Shell in 2004 offered its LPG distribution and marketing business up for sale and sold some LPG units, including those in Portugal, Brazil, Paraguay, Italy and parts of the Caribbean for around $350 million. Repsol YPF SA of Spain bought Shells Portuguese business in December 2004 and said it bid for the whole LPG unit. Shell in 2006 said it would keep parts of its LPG business that werent already been sold because it wasnt offered enough for them.
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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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