Danny Fortson Published: 1 May 2016
Royal Dutch Shell is set to unveil a steep fall in profits this week, laying bare the challenge for chief executive Ben van Beurden to justify his £35bn takeover of rival BG.
Shell completed the blockbuster deal in February after investors voted it through. Despite counting six weeks of BG’s earnings, analysts expect Europe’s largest oil company to have earned just $1bn (£680m) in profits for the quarter. That compares with a surplus of $3.2bn for the same period a year ago.
Van Beurden has pledged to sell $30bn in assets and slash 10,000 jobs to claw back some of the huge investment in BG.
Brent crude has bounced back since it plunged to less than $31 a barrel in January, closing on Friday at $47.37.
Yet hopes that a sustained recovery could bail him out have dimmed in recent days…
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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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