Shell News, this day, 9 years ago: Shell investors were still in a state of shock over the dramatic disclosure that Shell had vastly overstated its proven oil and gas reserves. The main villain, the fraudster, Sir Philip Watts, was still Royal Dutch Shell Group Chairman. Lord Oxburgh was still backing him.
Daily Mail: Rebels demand shake-up at Shell
By Brian O’Connor,
23 January 2004
DISSIDENT Shell investors are seeking a shake-up in the complex structure of the board and its committees. One result may be that an outside chairman is appointed when Sir Philip Watts steps down.
This would be a revolution for Shell, but big investors are in a revolutionary mood.
Though most boards now have a full-time chief executive and a part-time chairman, the UK company Shell Transport has traditionally had an executive chairman. So too has its sister company Royal Dutch Petroleum.
A powerful committee of managing directors straddles both groups and is chaired by one of these two chairmen – currently Sir Philip.
Shell is famed for its committees. But outside investors are now adamant that something must change at the group.
Sir Philip defiantly set out his plans to present the 2003 results on 5 February. He will front a long session with the media and City analysts.
Shell recognises that big investors remain angry and this will be a crucial test. To complicate matters, Shell faces a demand for big tax repayments in Nigeria.
Big investors have sought a meeting with senior independent director Lord Oxburgh. Members of the Association of British Insurers, who own at least 25% of Shell Transport, have expressed their concern.
Oxburgh, 69, a distinguished scientist, appears to have resisted calls for change and has backed Sir Philip.
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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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