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COMPANY MEETINGS: "SHELL" TRANSPORT AND TRADING CO. (LTD). SIR MARCUS SAMUEL REPLIES TO MR CHURCHILL: 23 JUNE 1914

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THE TIMES: COMPANY MEETINGS. "SHELL" TRANSPORT AND TRADING CO. (LTD.).

SIR MARCUS SAMUEL REPLIES TO MR CHURCHILL.

The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the members of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (Limited) was held yesterday at Winchester House, Old Broad-street, ...

MESOPOTAMIAN OIL: SHELL COMPANY'S POLICY: 1 SEPTEMBER 1921

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The suggestions made are mainly of two kinds-first, that Sir Henri Deterding and the great organization of which he is the head have, in the past, looked to Germany rather than to Great Britain as their home; and, secondly, that the Turkish Petroleum Company was a mysterious organization in which we and our friends sheltered ourselves behind German intrigue. These suggestions, of course, are utterly false.

DUTCH HELP FOR GERMANY: 30 December 1936

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Sir Henri Deterding has drawn up a scheme by which the entire surplus of Dutch agricultural products is to be bought and transported to Germany. There it will be sold in marks and the revenue will be handed over to the German Winter Help organization. Under the motto, " Western cooperation," Sir Henri Deterding has appealed for Dutch support, and in particular for more financial help.

ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM COMPANY: STATEMENT BY SIR HENRI DETERDING. 21 MARCH 1925

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THE TIMES 21 MARCH 1925

Royal Dutch Petroleum Company. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM COMPANY.

STATEMENT BY SIR HENRI DETERDING.

THE HAGUE. MARCH 20.

Sir Henri Deterding spoke at a banquet in Amsterdam last night where he was the guest of the industrial Club.

He said the Royal Dutch Petroleum company (of which Sir Henri is general managing director) had not come more under British influence as had been suggested in certain quarters. Out of orders amounting to 28 million florins recently given out by his company, 22 million florins worth were placed. in Holland, where the work could be done best and cheapest.

Speaking of the future of industry, with particular reference to the Dutch East Indies, Sir Henry Deterding said that Holland must continue to supply capital and men for the Indies. The need in the Indies was for good men who dared to take a responsibility. The people were not ready for self-government. Holland must learn to know the country better. He suggested that for three years, three groups each consisting of 12 teachers and 24 boys should be sent from Holland to learn more about the Indies. Sir Henry offered personally to pay half the expense of this scheme. He said it was necessary to send out bright young men who at an early age could make a start with practical work. Sir Henry Deterding's offer was gratefully accepted.

LETTER FROM HENRI DETERDING TO THE UK BOARD OF TRADE: 17 MARCH 1920

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THE TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920

Shell Royal Dutch Group. COPY OF LETTER addressed to the President of the Board of Trade by Mr. H. W. A. Deterding, Managing Director of the SHELL ROYAL DUTCH GROUP.

ST. HELENS COURT, LONDON, ...

Sir Henri Deterding's Retirement: 18 November 1936

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The Times: Sir Henri Deterding's Retirement

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT THE HAGUE, Nov. 17

At to-day's extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Royal Dutch Company Sir Henri Deterding was appointed a member of the board of directors. Jonkheer Loudon paid a tribute to Sir Henri on his retirement from the position of general manager and praised his work for the company during the past 30 years. He also paid a tribute to his organizing talents by which he had brought the company to its present position.

Sir Henri Deterding Obituary: 6 February 1939

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The Times: Sir Henri Deterding Obituary

THE INTERNATIONAL OIL INDUSTRY

Sir Henri Deterding, who was spending the winter at his villa near Suvretta, at St. Moritz, died suddenly on Saturday from angina pectoris, telegraphs our Geneva Correspondent. His death is ...

Sir H. Deterding On Rumours: 23 April 1932

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The Times: Sir H. Deterding On Rumours

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AMSTERDAM, APRIL 22

Dealing with yesterday's heavy falling Royal Dutch shares, Sir Henri Deterding, according to a London dispatch to the Telegraaf, declared that the rumours that he had given a big loan to Kreuger with money acquired by pledging shares of the Royal Dutch and Shell were, completely unfounded. These rumours, Sir Henri said, formed part of a "bear" attack from Moscow. This movement against the Royal Dutch. was conducted from Paris, and was financially supported from Moscow.. Those who spread the rumours knew that they were complete lies. I am fully informed," Sir Henri added, " about the source of these rumours in Paris.. When the accounts of the Royal Dutch and, Shell are published they,will make a good impression." This statement had a reassuring' effect on to-day's Bourse. Yesterday, after official quotations, Royal Dutch dropped to about' 16, but to-day the tendency was firmer and they closed about 105. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange Committee has entered into communication with foreign .committees dealing with the protection the interests of holders of Kreuger securities.

SIR H. DETERDING ON , RUMOURS - ---- *ROYAL DUTCH STEADIER IN AMSTERDAM

SIR HENRI DETERDING'S FUNERAL: 11 FEBRUARY 1939

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SIR HENRI DETERDING'S FUNERAL

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

BERLIN, FEB. 10

Herr Hitler and Field-Marshal Goring, and the Dutch Government. sent wreaths to the funeral to-day of Sir Henri Deterding at his estate at Dobbin, M1ecklenburg. A private memorial service in the house was followed by a public service and the interment. Simultaneously memorial services were held in all offices in Germany of the Royal Dutch-Shell group. It is announced that Sir Henri bequeathed the whole of his large estate at Dobbin-with the exception of the house and the immediately surrounding park- to the Friedrich-Heinrich Farming Institute, which he founded.

Liquefaction Of Coal: 7 April 1931

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The Times: Liquefaction Of Coal

AN INTERNATIONAL COMBINATION

Announcement is made of the organization of the International Hydrogenation Patents Company, Limited, representing a fusion of the interests of the Standard-I.G. Company, Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Imperial Chemical Industries in the ...

Imperial Chemical Industries: 20April 1934

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Imperial Chemical Industries

Company Meetings The SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, was held yesterday at the Central Hall, Westminster, London, S.W. SIR HARRY McGOWAN, K.B.E. (chairman and managing director), presided. The SECRETARY (Mr. J. E. James) ...

Inspired Poetic View of a Ghastly Crime: 20 October 1965

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The Times: Inspired Poetic View of a Ghastly Crime

The Arts

From Our Special Correspondent-BERLIN, OcT. 19 The wilfully planned and demoniac- ally organized extermination of five million human lives in the infamous wartime concentration camp in Auschwitz was so ...

Krupps' Work For Hitler: 8 December 1947

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The Times: Krupps' Work For Hitler

From Our Correspondent at Nuremberg

With the arraignment of the house of Krupp, by name and tradition identified so closely with Prussian militarism, the armament makers of the Third Reich take their place before ...

German War Planning: 30 July 1948

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The Times: German War Planning

From Our Special Correspondent NUREMBERG, JULY 29

An American military tribunal to-day acquitted the principal directors of I.G. Farbenindustrie, Germany's vast chemical combine, on charges of having planned and waged aggressive war, after a trial ...

Future of German Cartels: 22 October 1945

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The Times

Future Of German Cartels

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 Simultaneously with the news from Germany that United States army engineers will demolish three large munition plants of I.G. Farbenindustrie and five other industrial establishments in the ...

German Dye Trust: 22 February 1951

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The Times: German Dye Trust

From Our Frankfurt Correspondent

Final recommendations by allied experts appointed to regroup the vast and diversified I.G. Farben complex have now been prepared for the High Commission, and anxious German shareholders whose holdings have been frozen since the war hope that a final decision will be announced soon. The recommendations are that the greater parts of the three large groups-one in the Ruhr,, one in the Frankfurt area, and one at Ludwigshafen, in the French zone-which formed the basis of the first chemical merger in 1925 should again operate independently, and that from the remaining Farben interests in west Germany about six minor com- panies should be formed. On at least. two points British and American officials i have failed to agree and the decision now rests with the High Commissioners. The full description of the Farben organization reads: " Community of Interests of the Dyestuffs Industry Share Company," and it was indeed a community of interests, perhaps the most diversified Europe has known. In 1939 it was by far the largest business organization in Ger- many, and it stiU represents to-day the most important German industrial activi-, ties after the manufacture of iron and steel and the mining of coal. Its products touch l the ordinary citizen closely and give con- stant promise of new articles for use in the home. A random list of Farben productsl would include dyestuffs for textiles andI for many other materials; pharma-| ceuticals such as aspirin and other familiar l names; nitrogen compounds, includingl fertilizers; films and other photographic supplies; plastics; synthetic rubber; syn- 1 thetic fuels, including petrol and oil; arti- I ficial silk and fibies ; insecticides; sera and! vaccines; light metals; synthetic gems and perfumes; and compressed gases. Rubber and fuels have been prohibited by the allies, but these prohibitions are not likely l to last much longer. COMPANIES ABROAD In 1925 there were eight large chemical concerns in Germany, including the Bayer group, centred on Leverkusen, in the Ruhr; the Farbwerke, centred on Hoechst, outside Frankfurt; the Badischel Anilin- and Soda-Fabrik, centred on Ludwigshafen; the Agfa (Aktiengesell schaft fur Anilinfabrikation) film i and photography company in Berlin; and others. These had built up their l names since the 1860s, but to eliminatel competition and reduce costs a merger was I decided upon. A managing board of the i new corporation was formed, and, with its roots in west Germany, rapidly extended its interests. Up to 1939 it acquired new] properties in east Germany, and alsol formed' a vast number of companies abroad, so that out of 890 companies about half-though by no means half of the capital-were outside Germany During the war Farben expanded into Poland and France, and when the war ended 56 per cent. of the Farben assets were in territory occupied by the Russians. These companies became a total loss. to German shareholders, either because they had been destroyed or because they were% taken as reparations or made into Soviet or east German agencies. The shareholders, most of whom are in west Germany, use the considerable reduction already sustained by the Farben empire as a further argu- ment against " atomization " of their surviving interests. EMPHASIS ON EXPORTS In 1944 therefore I.G. Farben extended from Paris to Poland, enjoyed a gross annual sale of between 2,500m. and 3,000m. Reichsmarks, declared an annual dividend of 6 per cent (the maximum allowed by the Nazis) and had fixed assets of about 2,O00m. Reichsmarks. The cor- poration concentrated largely on exports, and in the 1930s found markets all over the world, but it did not, the shareholders maintain, share proportionately in the internal boom based on German rearma- ment. In 1938 its share of total German exports of all kinds stood at 8.6 per cent., and of chemical exports alone at 57 per cent. It claimed then nearly one-fifth of the world's chemical exports. By the end of the war it employed nearly 200,000 people, a figure, it must be assumed, which does not include the slave labour used at two places. Use of slave labour was one of the only two charges sustained against some of the Farben directors when they were brought into court at Nuremberg. The indictment had named waging war, mass extermina- tion, plunder and spoliation, and use of slave labour. Five men out of 23 were convicted because this labour was used at a rubber factory at Auschwitz and at a coal mine in Silesia which supplied this factory, and nine men were convicted of spoliation in Poland, Norway, and France. None of the sentences exceeded eight years' imprisonment, and through good conduct reductions all the men sentenced are now free. The allies' first move in 1945 was to appoint a control officer in each of the four zones to administer Farben properties, and in the western zones the officers are still carrying out this task, the three together forming a tripartite control office with headquarters in Frankfurt. These officials were appointed under Control Council law No. 9, which also ordered that each Far- ben unit should be independent and that all trading in shares should cease. The Germans have complained justifiably that a similar edict was not issued in the case of shares in heavy industries, and the only reason for the distinctiofl which suggests itself is that the heavy hand of the Rus- sians did not fall on iron and steel affairs as it did on I.G. Farben. As time passed the Russians went their own way and disposed of assets in their zone without consulting the other Powers. In the western zones the administration of Farben properties did not correspond on all points. The French left the group at Liudwigshafen more or less intact; the British allowed some latitude in maintain- ing what the Germrans call natural econo- mic entities " and in leaving practical management to the Germans; the Anieri- cans wished to separate all the plants down to the smallest. The difference between the British and American approach explains the alternative policies now facing the High Commission. ALLEED POWERS Since the Federal Government was formed the allies have continued to reserve control over decartelization, and full authority over Farben is now invested in them through law No. 35, dated last August, which echoed Control Council law No. 9. It had a sumnary sound at this stage of developments in Germany, in that it annulled all the rights of former boards of Farben companies, and gave the High Comjmission power to ktransfer or dispose of assets, reorganize companies, and cancel existing contracts. The Ger- mans responded sbarply with the criticisms that there was no guarantee that new com- panies would be established able to face world competition; that no time limit was set to allied control; and that about 300,000 shareholders would continue to depend on allied good wilL The High Commission then gave the assurance that the intention was to form economically sound and independent companies, and to distribute the securities in those companies among present shareholders. The Germans have not opposed the prin- ciple of deconcentration, but have objected to some separation plans, and have not agreed among themselves in all cases. They agree that the larger units should now stand separately, but the shareholders would prefer to see the fate of the smaller units left in abeyance. The essential difference between British and American views has arisen from the American objective-even though this has now been somewhat modified-to break the complex into as small parts as possible and the British preference for allowing most of the Bayer group in the British zone to continue as an entity. The fac- tories at Ludwigshafen and Oppau, in the French zone, have attracted comparatively little notice, except when the disastrous explosion took place at Ludwigshafen in 1948. No one has seriously doubted that they should remain intact, and the French therefore have not been ts concerned in the controversy as the other two allies. Their vote, however, will be important in the High Commission. CHIEF ISSUES When it was seen that the control officers could not agree on fundamental principles British, American, and French experts were called in to advise on the future com- position of the companies. Their joint compromise report has met with objec- tions from the west German G3vernment and from British officials, on two major points and on one or two minor ones. The chief issues centre on recommendations that an Agfa plant for making photo- graphic films and paper inside the Lever- kusen group should be detached and joined to an Agfa camera factory in Munich; and that synthetic fibre plants at Dormagen, in the Leverkuseu group, at Rottweil, in the French zone, and at Bobingen, near Augsburg, in the American zone, should be joined together. The Government is against this fusiop of the fibre plants and estimates it woil1d cost 30m. marks. Its objection has British support. Similarly, it is argued that it would be unnecessary to sever the film plant from Leverkusen, where it has been developed. - The nine principal units proposed by the experts are: the three groups at Lever- kusen, Hoechst, and Ludwigshafen; the synthetic fibre group; the Agfa combina- tion; the Casella factory; the Titan plant at Leverkusen which manufactures the basis for paint and is under half American and half German ownership; the chemical works at Hitlls, in the British zone, which made synthetic rubber among other, pro- ducts; and the chlorine and plastics plant at Rheinfelden, in the French zone. Recommendations are also made on four other plants, among them one at Duisburg, in the Ruhr, which is dominant in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. A question also to be settled by the High Commission, is who is to choose the new boards and how far pre- vious managers are to be allowed to con- tinue in office. The British tendency has been to rely on men already doing the job, while the Americans have sought to make a clean sweep. Bevond this again is the prospect, amounting almost to a certainty, that voices will be heard demanding that the new principle of co-determination for labour proposed-but not yet finally accepted-for the iron and steel industries should also apply in the chemical industry. Finally, when all has been settled, it is possible that the validity of changes of ownership directed by Occupation Powers and not by shareholders will be challenged in the international court. Such a chal- lenge might undo much that has been done in the past six years, but with so many more rivers to cross closer at hand this one may be left until it is reached. GERMAN DYE TRUST RECOMMENDATIONS ON DEGREE OF DISPERSAL

War Record Of I.G. Farben: 6 MAY 1947

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THE TIMES

War Record Of I.G. Farben From Our Special Correspondent in the United States Zone With the arraignment before an American military tribunal of Germany's vast chemical combine, I.G. Farben Industrie (Dye Trust), the most powerful industrialists of the Third Reich now step into the place at Nuremberg occupied a year ago by her chief political and military leaders. A group of 24 directors and executive officials were served on Saturday with a 20,000-word indictment charging them with preparing and waging wars of aggression and with a formidable list of specific crimes, including the murderous consequences of Nazi slave labour, that arose from them. The issue, in sum, is to determine the guilt of the industrialist in maktng aggressive war, already judged by N!luremberg to be the " supreme inter- national crime." The far-reaching conten- tion of General Telford Taylor, chief of counsel for the United States, is that with- out the armament makers Hitler and his generals could not have gone to war. Proceedings were recently begun in Nuremberg, the city of Nazi triumph and disaster, against Friedrich Flick, the little known but extremely influential steel magnate, and charges are to be brought in due course against the house of Krutp. The " Farben " trial, which may not open until July, is second in its significance only to the international trial mainly because of the intricate arrangements by which the combine participated in no fewer than 500 industrial undertakings outside Germanv, apart from its foreign manufacturing plants and holding companies. Judging from the indictment, these international ramifications, wnich for a long time in- spired cynical doubts about a trial ever being held, will be closely examined in the light of a massive accumulation of docu- mentary evidence. ECONOMIC FIFTH COLUMN Industrial undertakings abroad are set forth as the dupes of the Farben combine, which as late as 1942 still controlled more than 90 per cent. of synthetic rubber pro- duction throughout the world. Working hand in glove with Nazi foreign policy, its international affiliations and contracts, the indictment asserts, ran into thousands, including cartel agreements with major concerns in America, Britain, France, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and Poland, which were used as an economic weapon in the preparation for war. From 1935 on, all cartel agreements were cleared by Farben through the military economic staff of the Wehzrnacht. Their deliberate purpose was to restrict industrial develop- ment and scientific research outside Germany, especially in countries which Hitler planned to attack. In the same way Farben's pre-war activities were designed to weaken the United States as an " arsenal of democracy" by retarding such strategic products as synthetic rubber, magnesium, synthetic nitrogen, tetrazene, and' sulpha drugs. It is related how a cartel arrangement among Farben, the Aluminum Company of America and the Dow Chemical Com- pany greatly restricted the production of magnesium in the United States and pro- hibited exports to Europe except to Germany and, in negligible amounts, to Great Britain. Thus, Britain and the rest of Europe became completely dependent upon Germany for magnesium for which Britain was in a desperate situation on the outbreak of war. When, early in 1941, the British Purchasing Mission tried to buy tetrazene primed ammunition in the United States the sale was prevented by a Icartel agreement between a sub'idiary of Dupont and a subsidiary of Farben. The indictment further describes how, by means of cartel agreements with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Farben delayed the development and pro- duction of buna rubber in the United States until 1940, while at the same time making Germany independent of rubber imports. Farben deliberately evaded its obligations under the agreements, with the result that America entered the war with no adequate rubber supply and, cut off from supplies from the Far East, with no adequate programme for making synthetic rubber. " Only the most drastic steps prevented disaster." INTERNATIONAL TENTACLES Another aspect of Farben's inter- national activities was the laying in of stocks of critical war materials pending the full production of German synthetics. No other firm in Germany had the neces- sary international connexions or the foreign currency. In 1936, for example, the Standard Oil Company delivered S14,000,000 worth of petrol on an order for $20,000,000. In June, 1938, with the invasion of Czechoslovakia imminent, Germany was still deficient in tetra-ethyl lead, one of the main essentials of aviation petrol. On Goring's orders Farben arranged to " borrow" 500 tons from the Ethyl Export Corporation of the United States, misrepresenting the purpose of a 'Sloan" that was never returned. In the same way the Trust, at the request of the Reichsbank, used its international credit position to obtain loans of foreign cur- rency; when German needs of foreign exchange became desperate it sold its pro- ducts at less than cost. From all these international tentacles it was not a far step for the Trust's foreign agents to form the core of Nazi intrigue and espionage throughout the world. Its Berlin office, it is declared, was transformed into the economic intelli- gence arm of the Wehrmacht, preparing special reports and maps from which the Lufivafle often selected its targets, and its leading officials abroad were in many instances absorbed into the counter-intelli- gence branch of the High Cormmand. And as war loomed nearer Farben had its plans ready for protecting its foreign assets in the British Empire, France, and the United States by transferring them to neutral trustees. The international aspects of the Farben trial may be expected to throw a new and sometimes uneasy light on German pre- parations for war. We have, for instance, this illuminating statement from one of the. accused, Georg von Schnitzler, who directed Farben's sales and commercial activities:- " Even without being directly informed that the Government intended to wage war, it was impossible for officials of 1.G. or any other industrialists to believe that the enormous pro- duction of armaments and preparations for war, starting from the coming into power of Hitler, accelerated in 1936, and reaching un- believable proportions in 1938, could have any other meaning but that Hitler and the Nazi Government intended to wage war come what Long before the coming of Hitler, Farben was not only the largest industrial combine ever formed in Germany but one of the greatest in the world. By 1939, hitched to the Nazi star, it had more than doubled its size; book profits by 1942 had risen to 571,000,000 marks; and again there is the word of Schnitzler for affirm- ing that modem warfare would be unthinkable Without the achievements of the German chemical industry through the Four-Year Plan, under which Carl Krauch, chairman of Farben's supervisory board of directors and No. I defendant in the coming trial, had served with plenipotentiary powers as Goring's chemical expert. In the early days Farben saw in Hitler and his movement the possibility of extending its empire. The indictment relates how in November, 1932, two of its directors sought from Hitler support for the costly Farben hydrogenation process for producing synthetic petrol, which it had contemplated abandoning. Synthetic petrol fitted into Hitler's programme. STATE WITHIN THE STATE When Hitler asked the industrialists for aid before the elections of March, 1933, Farben headed the list of contributions with 400,000 Reichsmarks; by the end of the year the Government had guaranteed a large expansion of the Farben synthetic petrol plants, and discussions had begun on synthetic rubber research and the construction of a secret mag- nesium plant. On the basis of this collabora- tion the combine was soon concentrating its vast resources on the creation and equipnent of the German war machine, and a purely military liaison agency, the Vermittulungssvelle was set up in Berlin, one of whoge func- tions was to assure secrecy, particularly in respect of patents. By the end of 1936 Goring, cxplaining the Four-Year Plan, was telling the industrialists, including Farben, " We are already on the threshold of mobilization and we are already at war. Alt that is lacking is the shooting." For Albert Speer, the Dye Trust, often referred to as the " State within the State," had been raised to government status. The indictment precisely describes Farben's maJor contribution to German rearmament as the synthetic production of nitrates, oil, and rubber, without which Germany, having no natural resources, was incapable of preparing or waging aggressive war. Farben was the core of military mobilization not only by virtue of its own production but because all other German chemical companies and many other war industries were almost totally dependent upon its products. German tanks, artillery, and armoured vehicles rolled on Farben elec- tron metal wheels, were shod with Farben buna rubber, and propelled by Farben synthetic petrol. Nazi bomnbers were armoured with 'arben alurninium and magnesium alloys, carried death loads of Farben incendiary bombs and explosives, and were fuelled by Farben high-octane aviation petrol. With the unleashing of war Farben, it is alleged, entered upon a systematic programme of spoliation by scizing the chemical indus. tries of the overrun countries. But by the time France was defeated Farben's dreams of world conquest under its own New Order, a docu- ment of several thousand pages setting forth detailed schemes for the whole of Europe's chemical production, were rivalled only by Hitler's. Finally, the dread shadow of Himmler and the S.S. falls upon the war record of I.G. Farben. which is charged not only with a share of responsibility for the slave labour pro- 4ramme in drawing upon foreign workers for its factories but. by the construction on its own recommendation of a buna plant at Auschwitz, of direct complicity in the inhuman sufferings and murder of the concentration camps. Farben's conduct at Auschwitz, con- cludes the indictment, may best be described by a remark of Hitler: " What does it matter to us ? Look away if it makes you sick." WAR RECORD OF I.G. FARBEN NAZI INDUSTRIALISTS ARRAIGNED AT NUREMBERG MASSIVE ACCUMULATION OF EVIDENCE

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EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH LAWYER REPRESENTING ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP AND ALL ITS EMPLOYEES: 3 December 2009

More Shell reorganization appointments leaked to John Donovan: 2 December 2009

Shell critic says oil major targeting his website: 2 December 2009

Latest leaked Shell appointments list arising from restructuring: 1 December 2009

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC . COM TOP ARTICLES NOVEMBER 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:54:34 +0000

John Donovan email correspondence with Shell lawyers 28 Nov 2009

Leaked Shell Email: Downsteam-One Director Andrew Manley leaves Shell: 27 November 2009

Total farce of Shell Managed Open Resourcing: 24 November 2009

LEAKED SHELL MOTIVA EMAIL 24 NOV 2009: Norco Personnel Announcement

SHELL SPIN ON PEARL GTL BUDGET: 23 November 2009

Stanlow Refinery Sale: Union warns Essar Oil of dispute with Shell: 21 November 2009

Letter from Shell International Limited to John Donovan: 19 November 2009

Stanlow Refinery Sale: Sadly Shell has revealed its true colours: 18 November 2009

How much longer will Shell CIO Alan Matula last?: 18 November 2009

Shell jobs restructuring:You cannot believe how total the mess is – Shell insider: 17 November 2009

al-Yamamah corruption scandal: a taboo subject for Shell: 15 November 2009

Email from John Donovan to Gavin White, Shell International Limited: 15 November 2009

LEAFLETS GIVEN TO SHELL EMPLOYEES AT SHELL CENTRE OCTOBER 2009

Shell Stanlow Refinery in terminal decline with large job losses?" 11 November 2009

Shell apologises for Poppy Appeal shambles: 9 November 2009

Shell surrenders after PoppyCockup: 9 November 2009

Shell shoots itself in both feet on Remembrance Day: 8 November 2009

SHELL IT ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’: 8 November 2009

Outrage as top arms dealer plans “ethics” lecture: 5 November 2009

ENERTAG PATENTS: MORE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL IP CHICANERY?: 4 November 2009

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC . COM TOP ARTICLES OCTOBER 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:52:23 +0000

Leaked Shell Email from Frank Willsdon, General Manager, Stanlow Refinery: 30 October 2009

Shell: Talking To Essar About Sale Of German, UK Refineries: 30 OCTOBER 2009

Morale at all time low, managers and supervisors more focused on fear of job stability – Shell insider: 30 October 2009

Leaked Andrew Manley email reveals Voser impact on Shell Downstream-One plans: 30 October 2009

Changing mood of Shell Staff arising from restructuring: 29 October 2009

LEAKED EMAILS LOST SHELL BILLIONS ON SAKHALIN-2: 29 October 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Rumors Monday 26 Oct 2009

Domain name battle for Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com (guess who lost): 25 October 2009

SEX, DRUGS & CORRUPTION SPONSORED BY SHELL: 23 October 2009

Leaflet currently being distributed at Shell Centre: Rise of the gripe site: 21 October 2009

A pirate flag at Shell Centre as a warning to all who enter: 20 October 2009

Shell offshore workers died as a result of a “Touch F*** All” safety regime: 20 October 2009

Email from John Donovan to Shell Ethics Chief Richard Wiseman 16 Oct 09

Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil: 15 October 2009

JOHN DONOVAN REPLY LETTER TO SHELL 15 OCT 2009

The dirty little secret of Shell’s reorganization: 15 October 2009

Leaflet distributed at Shell Centre Wednesday 14/15/16 Oct 2009 (THE SHELL “SMART” HIGH COURT TRIAL)

SUNDAY TIMES ARTICLE BEING DISTRIBUTED AT SHELL CENTRE TODAY: 12 October 2009

Retired Shell Global Chief Petroleum Engineer Iain Percivil speaks out: 9 October 2009

Has Shell’s notorious “Touch F*** All” offshore safety policy surfaced again?: 8 October 2009

Deadly Implications of Shell Brent Charlie Prohibition Notice: 7 October 2009

Sacked Shell EP Boss Walter van de Vijver sacked again: 3 October 2009

Shell Stanlow Refinery Anti-Union Rumor True: 3 October 2009

RIGGED SHELL CONTRACT TENDER:2 October 2009

10 YEARS ON AND NOTHINGS CHANGED: 2 October 2009

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC . COM TOP ARTICLES SEPTEMBER 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:49:55 +0000

Bloomberg retracts claim that Shell will overtake BP in Production: 30 Sept 2009

UPDATED: Bloomberg accused of publishing false Shell production forecasts: 29 Sept 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Rumors Updated Monday 28 Sept 2009

Update on Shell Corrib Gas Controversy: 27 Sept 2009

BAE Systems whistleblower accuses Shell & BP of money laundering Al-Yamamah proceeds: 27 Sept 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Withdrawing from Downstream?: 27 Sept 2009

Bloomberg accused of publishing false Royal Dutch Shell production forecasts: 26 Sept 2009

Leaked Shell Email Announces Senior Staff Changes at Motiva US Refineries: 25 Sept 2009

Updated: Rumors Circulating Inside Royal Dutch Shell…: 25 Sept 2009

Shell Upstream Boss Malcolm Brinded: Mr Overpromise and Underdelivery: 25 Sept 2009

Seeds of next Shell reserves scandal being sown: 24 Sept 2009

Shell: Murder and cover-up on the high seas (updated): 24 Sept 2009

Pectina Devastatis – Shell Decay by Cor Houtenboer: 24 Sept 2009 (Hoax)

Anyone out there taking bets on how long Shell will exist?: 23 Sept 2009

Shell Chief Ethics Officer Richard Wiseman Refutes Accusations: 21 Sept 2009

Shell Stanlow Refinery Auction: Employees to Meet Offsite: 20 Sept 2009

How timely from Dilbert. It might just be that Gale Norton was hired this way: 20 Sept 2009

The false bravado of Shell Ethics Chief Richard Wiseman: 20 Sept 2009

royaldutchshellplc.com Top 10 List: 20 Sept 2009

Gale Norton investigation: the Stink of Royal Dutch Shell Corruption: 17 September 2009

Job Cut Rumors Circulating Inside Royal Dutch Shell…: 16 September 2009

Shell Stanlow Unionised Workers Group Launch Website: 14 September 2009

Paddy Briggs elected as a Trustee of Shell Contributory Pension Fund: 14 September 2009

Leaked email from Shell Projects & Technology Executive Matthias Bichsel: 13 September 2009

Shell Job Cuts Torture: 13 September 2009

Shell CEO Peter Voser Calgary Speech 11 September 2009

Shell’s Ruthless Exploitation of Gas Station Operators: 10 September 2009

Leaked Email from Shell VP Tom Purves reveals confidential Motiva Business Plans: 10 September 2009

Stanlow Refinery Workers Ready to Fight Shell: 10 September 2009

Shell Job Cuts Update 9 Sept 2009

Latest Insider News on Shell EP Job Cuts: 8 September 2009

Mounir Bouaziz, Shell VP for making deals with corrupt governments: 7 September 2009

Massive Shell Job Cuts, Again: 6 September 2009

Email to Shell on Imminent EP Job Cuts Announcement: 4 September 2009

Shell EP staff to be cut by 15%?: 4 September 2009

Leaked List of 80 Shell Downstream Executive Appointments: 1 September 2009

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC . COM TOP ARTICLES AUGUST 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:47:56 +0000

Royal Dutch Shell plc.com site must bear responsibility for its actions: 27 August 2009

Scottish Authorities deepen investigation into alleged Shell Corruption: 25 August 2009

Shell Stanlow workers offered for sale like slaves in public auction: 24 August 2009

My prayers for Shell Stanlow employees: 24 August 2009

Leaked Shell Emails Discuss Despicable Treatment of Stanlow Refinery Workforce: 24 August 2009

Arch-critic emails over 400 Shell senior execs: 22 August 2009

Shell’s Malcolm Brinded – lustful friend of Libya: 22 August 2009

Shell has been stalking the Libyans ever since relations thawed: 22 August 2009

Shell Corrib Gas Project Impact on Erris Fisherman: 18 August 2009

Corporate spying: 17 August 2009

US oil industry split as leaked memo reveals lobbying plan: 15 August 2009

Greenwash Offenders Shell in US climate change controversy: 15 August 2009

Hakluyt – the corporate investigations spy firm linked to Shell: 13 August 2009

Shell flagship IT project “a monumental blunder”: 12 August 2009

Shell/Motiva CEO Bob Pease dragged into Tom Purves controversy: 12 August 2009

Shell insiders constructive comments on “Transition 2009″: 12 August 2009

Right of reply extended to Jeff Funkhouser, Production Manager, Shell/Motiva: 11 August 2009

US Justice Department continues investigation of BAE Systems Al-Yamamah arms deal: 10 August 2009

Debate flares over Shell/Motiva refineries: 10 August 2009

An email to Shell/Motiva Vice President, Tom Purves: 10 August 2009

A posting by Shell/Motiva Regional VP for Downstream Manufacturing on The Gulf Coast, Tom Purves?: 10 August 2009

Insight on Shell/Motiva changes by “Jo Blow”: 9 August 2009

The writing is on the wall for Shell’s downstream business: 9 August 2009

Shell’s “Web Communications”: 8 August 2009

Royal Dutch Shell saved Hitler and the Nazi Party: 7 August 2009

Evidence of how Royal Dutch Shell saved Hitler and the Nazi Party: 7 August 2009

Retired Shell Group Auditor questions integrity of Jorma Ollila: 6 August 2009

Time to reflect on the integrity of Shell Chairman, Jorma Ollila: 6 August 2009

Over 300 Shell VP appointments published on royaldutchshellplc.com: 3 August 2009

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL TOP ARTICLES JULY 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:46:03 +0000

Shell not a “hoodlum organisation” says its Company Secretary, Michiel Brandjes: 31 July 2009

Former Shell HSE Group Auditor says Shell is a hoodlum organisation: 31 July 2009

Shell Brent Bravo fatalities – why a criminal investigation is in progress: 30 July 2009

Shell Corrib Gas protestor Maura Harrington given four months in jail: 30 July 2009

Shell Blog reaction to Shell 2nd Quarter Results – fire Brinded: 30 July 2009

Shell cuts senior execs by 20% substantial staff cuts to follow: 30 July 2009

Tips on suing Royal Dutch Shell for theft of Intellectual Property: 29 July 2009

On a Swiss roll...: 27 July 2009

Shell insiders toxic reaction to Vosification job cuts: 27 July 2009

Royal Dutch Shell ruthless restructuring continues – more job cuts: 27 July 2009

Shell Dutch Pension Fund Melt Down Recovery Plan: 23 July 2009

Michiel Brandjes one of the good guys at Royal Dutch Shell Plc 22 July 2009

Royaldutchshellplc.com outspoken Royal Dutch Shell articles in July 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:56:23 +0100

Shell gripe with The Wall Street Journal over royaldutchshellplc.com website?: 21 July 2009

Is Shell the world’s biggest company due to merit or malevolence?: 20 July 2009

Two men and a website mount vendetta against an oil giant: 19 July 2009

Email from Shell official fuels rumors of Convent Refinery sale: 16 July 2009

Shell turns the thumbscrews on contractors and ALL contractor labour suppliers: 6 July 2009

Shell’s Sinister Relationship with Nigerian Militants: 1 July 2009

Defending Shell’s good name and reputation: 1 July 2009

Royaldutchshellplc.com outspoken Royal Dutch Shell articles in June 2009

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:51:42 +0100

Shell’s botched attempt to seize its own Internet domain name: 25 June 2009

Voserfication at Royal Dutch Shell Plc: 21 June 2009

Names of over 60 Shell Exec appointments leaked: 21 June 2009

Leaked email from incoming Shell CEO Peter Voser reveals list of senior appointments: 20 June 2009

Shell retiring CEO Jeroen van der Veer: a candid assessment by Paddy Briggs: 20 June 2009

Shell, Nigeria, Militant Attacks, and the Escalating Price of Oil: 18 June 2009

Exxon taking more active role in NAM joint venture company with Shell?: 17 June 2009

$15.5M SETTLEMENT: SHELL HAS ANOTHER DAY IN COURT: 13 June 2009

Corrib Gas War: Is Shell skulduggery behind the sinking of an Irish fishing vessel by armed mercenaries?: 11 June 2009

Shell’s $15.5m settlement: the robber barons knocking at the Ogoni door: 10 June 2009

Shell’s blood money settles the Wiwa case: 8 June 2009

Safety last at Shell Centre: 8 June 2009

SNAPSHOT OF CIVIL DOCKET (COURT DOCS) FOR KEN WIWA vs. SHELL TRIAL 5 JUNE 2009

Shell settlement in the Wiwa v. Shell U.S. trial imminent: 4 June 2009

The breathtaking hypocrisy of Shell bosses Malcolm Brinded and Richard Wiseman: 2 June 2009

Donovan interventions in Sakhalin-2 Project

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:27:42 +0000

By John Donovan

Below is a compilation of information put together for certain third parties. It all relates to our involvement in the Sakhalin-2 project which led to Shell's loss of its ownership stake and the resignation of David Greer. ...

Comment received from "appalled Shell insider": email address supplied

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:35 +0000

Comment received from "appalled Shell insider": email address supplied

Let me share some more of unethical practices inside Shell. They don't even spare their employees!

Post 2004 scandal, Shell initiated a massive corporate-wide transformation Program called Downstream-One. It is an ...

In the wake of Shell "lies corruption, despoliation and death": Andrew Rowell in his remarkable article "Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil"

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:17:55 +0000

By John Donovan

In view of the overnight news from Nigeria it seems an appropriate time to publish for the first time on the Internet the most dramatic masterpiece about Shell and its atrocious track record, especially in Nigeria, that ...