By John Donovan
THE BEN VAN BEURDEN FIRESALE
RETRENCHMENT AFTER AN ERA OF OVER-PROMISE AND UNDER-DELIVERY
I published over the weekend Shell insider rumours that Royal Dutch Shell may be considering selling off Shell Oil Company, perhaps to its 50-50 jv partner in Motiva Enterprises, Saudi Aramco. In what might be a related move, news has broken today that Royal Dutch Shell is also mulling the divestment of its refinery and petrol stations in Australia. According to The Australian Financial Review, Shell is in “preliminary” negotiations with a large private equity firm and a consortium including Macquarie Group to offload its $3 billion network of petrol stations as well as its refinery in Geelong, which was put on the market last year.
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.
