By John Donovan
From: “New Images of Nazi Germany”
Extract from the section “Corporate Collaboration” commencing page 203 running onto page 204
The connection of the Royal Dutch Shell Group to Nazi Germany centered on Sir Henri Deterding…
Variously described as the “most powerful man in the world” and the “Napoleon of Oil,” he was also an early admirer of both Hitler and Mussolini…
Deterding himself offered a plan in 1935 to provide a year’s worth of oil credit to Nazi Germany, in principle a war reserve.
As Wikipedia editors are aware, my father Alfred Donovan passed away in 2013. Since there are a number of references to him in the above Wikipedia article, I provided proof in the form of a Guardian newspaper article about Shell that mentioned his death, hoping the information would be updated. 
