By Wilt Staph
Shell is the least courageous of all the oil majors when it comes to acquisitions. The over-priced takeover of Enterprise Oil aside Shell has stood on the sidelines whilst all of its competitors, without exception, have concluded huge scale takeovers/mergers in the last ten years. The reason for this reluctance is not hard to find essentially Shell has always been the most risk averse of the majors. This came partly from the companys historic size which led to complacency (it was once the largest corporation in the world in any sector) and secondly from its utterly conservative and Calvinist mindset. The Dutch and the British have one thing in common – something that is reinforced when they come together diffidence tempered by a curious lack of ambition and audacity. Everything has to be quantified to the nth degree and by the time that the spreadsheets have finished whirring someone else has moved in and stolen the deal.
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.
