BRITISH PATHE NEWS film footage has come to light which shows the huge importance Hitler attached to his fundraising vehicle for the Nazi regime. Royal Dutch Shell founder Sir Henri Deterding was by far the largest single donor, sending 7,000 railway wagons full of Dutch food produce. Despite criticism in the news media, specifically linking the money saved on food to Nazi rearmament, Deterding continued to donate Dutch food to Nazi Germany.
By John Donovan
In December 1936, there were global news reports about Royal Dutch Shell founder Sir Henri Deterding’s massive food donations to Hitlers Winter Relief Charity fundraising project in Nazi Germany.
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FROM THE ARGUS (MELBOURNE) NEWSPAPER AUSTRALIA PUBLISHED 30 December 1936
IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN
Messages from the Continent Indicate; that neither Slgnor Mussolini nor Herr Hitler is hastening to reply to the communication sent by Great Britain and France about the enlistment of volunteers in Spain.
Great Britain and Japan have formally informed the United States of their intention to invoke the escalator clause of the Treaty of London. In the year ended December 25 the foreign trade of Japan increased by about £27,000,000.
Thirty leading Nazis have been arrested at Warsaw by the political police, and other arrests are expected.
With the object of assisting Dutch farmers Sir Henri Deterding has given £1,000,000 for the purchase of farm products for export to Germany.
A search party has found the wreckage of an airliner in California with 12 bodies lying beside it.
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