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Royal Dutch Shell fueled Nazi Germany for war

Sep 20th, 2011
by John Donovan.
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By John Donovan

In the years in the run up to WW2, Royal Dutch Shell was a business partner both Internationally and in Germany with IG Farben, the notorious German chemical firm. Farben supplied Zyklon-B gas to the Nazi concentration camps, in which millions of innocent people including children, were murdered in the Holocaust.

IG Farben shared patent rights to synthetic oil and other products with Shell.

Royal Dutch Shell group was also a major partner with Farben in jointly owned companies, including Deutsche Gasolin A.G., which operated a refinery and gasoline service station network in Nazi Germany.

Shell was also a major partner in oil related cartels with I.G. Farben and Standard Oil.

A New York Times article published in October 1945 quoted from an I.G. Farben report to the Gestapo on how Germany had benefited from oil cartel agreements.

The report said that experience in the field of lubricants was of the “utmost importance in warfare” and enabled Germany to be “completely prepared from a technical point of view…”

The article went on to say:

Standard Oil and the Anglo-Netherland Royal Dutch Shell group also aided I. G. Farben in 1934 and 1935 to purchase large quantities of mineral-oil products, the report  said. These products, including airplane benzine and lubricants, were bought for a market price of $20,000,000 and stored as reserve stocks.

Further proof of massive Royal Dutch Shell support for the Nazis.

Evidence that Royal Dutch Shell financed fascist death squads

Sep 5th, 2011
by John Donovan.
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Royal Dutch Shell de facto CEO J.E.F. de Kok in the centre of this 1938 photograph

By John Donovan

The article below was published by an American newspaper a year after the death of Royal Dutch Shell founder Sir Henri Deterding and weeks after the sudden death of his immediate successor as de facto CEO, Johan Egbert Frederik (Frits) de Kok, known as J.E.F. de Kok.

It confirms that Royal Dutch Shell financed fascist death squads collectively known as the Romanian Iron Guard “and helped to link it with Nazi interests in Berlin.” The Iron Guard carried out high-level political assassinations.

The Evening Independent: THE SUNSHINE NEWSPAPER: Clearwater Florida: 11 December 1940

Article on page 18  – top far right column (very appropriate)

GAMBLERS– The conflict between two vast oil empires–Standard and Dutch Shell–lies behind the internal turmoil that recently culminated in Rumanian riots, shootings and jailings–and an infiltration of Nazis into the harassed country in the Balkans. Oleaginous history simply repeated itself.

The Royal Dutch Shell Oil company long headed by Henry Deterding and owned 50-50 by Dutch and British capital, is taking heavy punishment. Losses of extremely valuable oil properties in Russia transformed Deterding into a bitter anti-Bolshevik, and he labored for years to make Rumania a Fascist stronghold.

His successor J. E. F. de Kok–who in turn passed on last month–financed the Rumanian “Iron Guard,” and helped to link it with Nazi interests in Berlin. Both groups played with Rumanian politicos and intriguers who looked after Shell’s health. They opposed King Carol, who had lined up with the French. Standard Oil likewise cast its lot with Paris, and stands to suffer unless it falls in with the Dutch Shell party line.

It is probable that neither Deterding nor De Kok contemplated or desired the political and international mess that the long-range scheming precipitated.

Both Shell and Standard will undoubtedly lose out in the end–as did the German and Italian industrials barons who financed and fostered their totalitarian masters, Hitler and ll duce.

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Exxon must act to keep an enviable reputation

May 3rd, 2008
by admin.
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Whether viewed over the past five years or past 20, Exxon’s total shareholder returns have comfortably exceeded the average of its peers: Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Chevron.

But nobody is perfect…

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