Email to Samford University History Department re truth about TrumpFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: jdenhart@samford.edu <jdenhart@samford.edu>
Cc: "amcewan@samford.edu" <amcewan@samford.edu>; mwithers@samford.edu <mwithers@samford.edu>; jcobia@samford.edu <jcobia@samford.edu>; dburch1@samford.edu <dburch1@samford.edu>; jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 03:06:57 PM CST
Subject: Samford University History Department and the truth about Trump
Dear Samford University History Department Chair Hartog,
I don't think Rep. Gary Palmer is telling the truth about Donald Trump in the Alabama 6th Congressional district.
I am trying to tell that truth, per
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: 31 days until March 3rd (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) and
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I urge the Samford University History Department to find ways to tell the truth about Trump to the Samford community and to other local communities the Department is able to reach.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Email to University of Montevallo History Department re truth about TrumpFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: hultquic@montevallo.edu <hultquic@montevallo.edu>
Cc: rmartin@cbs42.com <rmartin@cbs42.com>; shannon.isbell@wbrc.com <shannon.isbell@wbrc.com>; Baylor Long <blong@hearst.com>; pamhuff@sbgtv.com <pamhuff@sbgtv.com>; knorred@wvua23.com <knorred@wvua23.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 01:35:59 PM CST
Subject: U. of Montevallo History Department and the truth about Trump
Dear Dr. Hultquist:
I don't think Rep. Gary Palmer is telling the truth about Donald Trump to the Alabama 6th Congressional district.
I am trying to tell that truth, per
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: My Wishes and Horses Campaign (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) and
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I urge the University of Montevallo History Department to find ways to tell the truth about Trump to the Montevallo university community and to other local communities the Department is able to reach.
Thank you very much for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Email to UAB History Department re truth about Trump
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: jwiesen@uab.edu <jwiesen@uab.edu>
Cc: Christopher Jones <jonesc1@uab.edu>; ppddei@uab.edu <ppddei@uab.edu>; rmartin@cbs42.com <rmartin@cbs42.com>; shannon.isbell@wbrc.com <shannon.isbell@wbrc.com>; Baylor Long <blong@hearst.com>; pamhuff@sbgtv.com <pamhuff@sbgtv.com>; knorred@wvua23.com <knorred@wvua23.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 at 04:22:57 AM CST
Subject: UAB History Department and the truth about Trump
Dear UAB History Department Chair Wiesen,
I don't think Rep. Gary Palmer is telling the truth about Donald Trump to the Alabama 6th Congressional district.
I am trying to tell that truth, per
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: My Wishes and Horses Campaign (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) and
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I urge the UAB History Department to find ways to tell the truth about Trump to the UAB community and to other local communities the Department is able to reach.
Thank you very much for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Email to UA History Department re truth about TrumpFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: jrothman@ua.edu <jrothman@ua.edu>
Cc: jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>; Kay Norred <knorred@wvua23.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 09:24:03 AM CST
Subject: University of Alabama History Department and the truth about Trump
Dear University of Alabama History Department Chair Rothman,
I don't think Rep. Gary Palmer is telling the truth about Donald Trump to the Alabama 6th Congressional district.
I am trying to tell that truth, per
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: My Wishes and Horses Campaign (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) and
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I have emailed the chairs of the History Departments of UAB, Samford, and the University of Montevallo, urging those History Departments to find ways to tell the truth about Trump to their university communities and to other local communities the History Departments are able to reach.
While the University of Alabama is not in the 6th Congressional district, I urge your History Department to do similarly as the UAB, Samford and the University of Montevallo History Departments.
As impetus for you, please consider how well the truth about Trump was told or not told in the December GOP presidential debate at the University Alabama.
It was reported that an "all-star cast of legislators, government and corporate executives, university administrators, major party donors and industry association chiefs alongside the crowd of GOP officials and national political influencers" attended the debate.
Following the debate, I engaged in a fruitless effort to try to get Alabama Republicans who were part of that "all-star cast" to answer the question: "Did Donald Trump engage in insurrection on Jan. 6th?" See
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Did Donald Trump engage in insurrection on Jan. 6th? (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Maybe the University of Alabama History Department has the clout to get Alabama Republicans to answer the foregoing question.
Thank you very much for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Follow up email to chairs of Samford, Montevallo, UAB and UA history departmentsFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: jdenhart@samford.edu <jdenhart@samford.edu>; hultquic@montevallo.edu <hultquic@montevallo.edu>; jwiesen@uab.edu <jwiesen@uab.edu>; jrothman@ua.edu <jrothman@ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 07:03:57 AM CDT
Subject: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump
Dear Samford University History Department Chair Hartog, University of Montevallo History Department Dr. Hultquist, UAB History Department Chair Wiesen, and University of Alabama History Department Chair Rothman:
This email is in follow up to the individual emails I wrote to you in February (which individual emails can be found at
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com)), in which I urged your history departments to find ways to tell the truth about Trump to your university communities and to other local communities your history departments were able to reach.
Four months on from February, there is now the situation of leaders in America's business world moving to throw in with Donald Trump to get him elected President in November.
Business Leaders Change Their Tune on Trump | National News | U.S. News (usnews.com).
This calls to mind the history of Nazi Germany and Hitler's maneuvering with German corporate leaders to get them to support him, as led to Hitler ultimately acquiring absolute power in Germany.
Hitler's Wealthy Backers: How German Elite Facilitated The Nazi Rise | HistoryExtra;
How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis | Brennan Center for Justice.
It seems particularly apt to quote the following from
The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers | The New Yorker:
So the historian Timothy W. Ryback’s choice to make his new book, “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” (Knopf), an aggressively specific chronicle of a single year, 1932, seems a wise, even an inspired one. Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. Ryback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him. Each was sure that, after the passing of a brief storm cloud, so obviously overloaded that it had to expend itself, they would emerge in possession of power. The corporate bosses thought that, if you looked past the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you had someone who would protect your money. Communist ideologues thought that, if you peered deeply enough into the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you could spy the pattern of a popular revolution. The decent right thought that he was too obviously deranged to remain in power long, and the decent left, tempered by earlier fights against different enemies, thought that, if they forcibly stuck to the rule of law, then the law would somehow by itself entrap a lawless leader. In a now familiar paradox, the rational forces stuck to magical thinking, while the irrational ones were more logical, parsing the brute equations of power. And so the storm never passed. In a way, it still has not.
I am sending you this second email to urge that professors in your history departments send letters to Alabama TV stations and to Alabama chambers of commerce calling to their attention the parallels between Hitler and Trump as regards, among other things, business leaders in Nazi Germany and business leaders in the United States today supporting Hitler and Trump respectively in their respective rises to power (or attempts to rise to power).
As to the TV stations, perhaps they would editorialize if they received letters from your departments' professors. I am trying to work on the TV stations in this regard, as indicated in
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
As to Alabama chambers of commerce, I have been badgering them about institutional respect and trust of Alabamians, and letters from your professors might get more recognition than the badgering I do.
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: A time for AL institutional respect and trust (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Email to Auburn History Department Chair Blair re Auburn Coach Pearl From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: mab0122@auburn.edu <mab0122@auburn.edu>
Cc: "jdenhart@samford.edu" <jdenhart@samford.edu>; hultquic@montevallo.edu <hultquic@montevallo.edu>; jwiesen@uab.edu <jwiesen@uab.edu>; jrothman@ua.edu <jrothman@ua.edu>; Cathleen Erwin <coe0001@auburn.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 06:55:23 PM CDT
Subject: Auburn Coach Pearl and similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump
Dear Professor Blair,
Last month I sent the below email to Samford University History Department Chair Hartog, University of Montevallo History Department Dr. Hultquist, UAB History Department Chair Wiesen, and University of Alabama History Department Chair Rothman. My email urged that professors in their history departments send letters to Alabama TV stations and to Alabama chambers of commerce calling to the attention of those parties parallels between Hitler and Trump.
Today1819 News posted the article
'This is going too far! ...to suggest Trump in 2024 is Hitler in 1932?': Auburn's Pearl says media, DOJ 'complicit' in political violence (1819news.com), in which views of Auburn head basketball coach Bruce Pearl about comparing Trump with Hitler are set forth.
I urge you to read what Coach Pearl is publicly purveying regarding comparisons between Hitler and Trump.
Then, I solicit that professors in your Auburn history department send letters to Alabama TV stations and to Alabama chambers of commerce calling to the attention of those parties parallels between Hitler and Trump.
Thank you for reading this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
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[referenced "below email is above Follow up email to chairs of Samford, Montevallo, UAB and UA history departments]
Email to Chair and Vice Chair of Dartmouth College history departmentFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Darrin.M.McMahon@dartmouth.edu <darrin.m.mcmahon@dartmouth.edu>; Leslie.A.Butler@dartmouth.edu <leslie.a.butler@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: Robert B. Coates <robert.b.coates@dartmouth.edu>; Linda L. Fowler <linda.l.fowler@dartmouth.edu>; Jeff Carton <jcarton@denleacarton.com>; Neal K. Katyal <neal.katyal@hoganlovells.com>; cborton@maynardnexsen.com <cborton@maynardnexsen.com>; ddowd@burr.com <ddowd@burr.com>; President Sian Leah Beilock <president's.office@dartmouth.edu>; editor@dartreview.com <editor@dartreview.com>; editor@thedartmouth.com <editor@thedartmouth.com>; heather.richardson@bc.edu <heather.richardson@bc.edu>; jdenhart@samford.edu <jdenhart@samford.edu>; hultquic@montevallo.edu <hultquic@montevallo.edu>; jwiesen@uab.edu <jwiesen@uab.edu>; jrothman@ua.edu <jrothman@ua.edu>; mab0122@auburn.edu <mab0122@auburn.edu>; coe0001@auburn.edu <coe0001@auburn.edu>; jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>; bob@schreiberadr.com <bob@schreiberadr.com>; csmith@al.com <csmith@al.com>; bclawdean@bc.edu <bclawdean@bc.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2024 at 04:13:57 AM CDT
Subject: Will Trump exploit assassination attempt the way Hitler exploited Reichstag fire?
Dear Dartmouth College History Department Chair McMahon and Vice Chair Butler:
I was a math major at Dartmouth, class of 1969. I am now a retired lawyer in Alabama.
I have been blogging in Alabama about similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump.
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com)This has included emailing history departments at Alabama universities about Hitler and Trump.
I think the Newsweek opinion piece
Trump's Miracle Will Be America's Salvation, published yesterday by Monica Crowley, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 2019 to 2021, is a sign that Trump will try to exploit the assassination attempt in a way similar to Hitler's exploitation of the Reichstag fire in 1933.
If that is correct, huge amounts of messaging will emanate from the Trump side similar to what Monica Crowley has written.
I believe such Trump campaign messaging will need to be met with counter messaging that seeks to educate the American people about how Trump is exploiting the assassination attempt in Trump's quest for absolute power in the United States, similar to the way Hitler exploited the Reichstag fire to gain absolute power in Germany.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-reichstag-fire-and-nazis-rise-power-180962240/I am exceedingly limited in what I can do in the foregoing regard. Sending you this email is a thing I can do, and so I am doing it.
Thank you for reading this email, and, if you agree, with me, thank you for doing what you can.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
Email to Alabama TV stations "Will Trump use the assassination attempt the way Hitler used the Reichstag fire?"From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: To: "shannon.isbell@wbrc.com <shannon.isbell@wbrc.com>; Susana Schuler <susana.schuler@hearst.com>; brendan.kirby@fox10tv.com <brendan.kirby@fox10tv.com>; jama.killingsworth@waff.com <jama.killingsworth@waff.com>; Mike Wright <mwright@waaytv.com>; Kay Norred <knorred@wvua23.com>; rmartin@cbs42.com <rmartin@cbs42.com>; Baylor Long <blong@hearst.com>; dwingard@wsfa.com <dwingard@wsfa.com>; news@mynbc15.com <news@mynbc15.com>; randy.merrow@fox10tv.com <randy.merrow@fox10tv.com>; gmcdonald@waka.com <gmcdonald@waka.com>; comments@abc3340.com <comments@abc3340.com>; newstip@abc3340.com <newstip@abc3340.com>; wvtm13@wvtm.com <wvtm13@wvtm.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 05:22:41 AM CDT
Subject: Will Trump use the assassination attempt the way Hitler used the Reichstag fire?
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com)
Email to Bucknell University History Department Chair CampellFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: claire.campbell@bucknell.edu <claire.campbell@bucknell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 04:42:45 AM CDT
Subject: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump
Dear Bucknell University History Department Chair Campell:
I spent my freshman year (1965-6) at Bucknell. I transferred to Dartmouth and more than a half century later am now a retired lawyer in Alabama.
With a lot of free time on my hands, and currently spurred by J.D. Vance having said Trump could be America's Hitler, I have been pushing, in limited ways available to me, for warnings to America about parallels between Hitler and Trump.
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Today I particularly take note of the article
25 of the richest donors funneling money to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Steve Schwarzman, and more, which, for me, calls to mind the history of Nazi Germany and Hitler's maneuvering with German corporate leaders to get them to support him, as led to Hitler ultimately acquiring absolute power in Germany.
In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power.
I hope professors in the Bucknell history department similarly think warnings should be given to America about Hitler and Trump and will do what they can to purvey the same.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
Email to Denison University History Chair ThrelkeldFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: threlkeldm@denison.edu <threlkeldm@denison.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 12:22:23 PM CDT
Subject: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump
Dear Denison University History Chair Threlkeld:
This is not a completely random email.
I am a retired lawyer in Alabama.
With a lot of free time on my hands, and currently spurred by J.D. Vance having said Trump could be America's Hitler, I have been pushing, in limited ways available to me, for warnings to America about parallels between Hitler and Trump.
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Today I particularly take note of the article
25 of the richest donors funneling money to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Steve Schwarzman, and more, which, for me, calls to mind the history of Nazi Germany and Hitler's maneuvering with German corporate leaders to get them to support him, as led to Hitler ultimately acquiring absolute power in Germany.
In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power.
I hope professors in the Denison history department similarly think warnings should be given to America about Hitler and Trump and will do what they can to purvey the same.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
Email to Alabama chambers of commerceFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: sammons@birminghambusinessalliance.com <sammons@birminghambusinessalliance.com>; director@homewoodchamber.org <director@homewoodchamber.org>; chamber@vestaviahills.org <chamber@vestaviahills.org>; chamberinfo@shelbychamber.net <chamberinfo@shelbychamber.net>; pelhamchamberofcommerce@gmail.com <pelhamchamberofcommerce@gmail.com>; sandra@leedsareachamber.com <sandra@leedsareachamber.com>; nhewston@mobilechamber.com <nhewston@mobilechamber.com>; jim@westalabamachamber.com <jim@westalabamachamber.com>; hduncan@bcatoday.org <hduncan@bcatoday.org>; srose@montgomerychamber.com <srose@montgomerychamber.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 09:48:51 PM CDT
Subject: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump
Dear Alabama chambers of commerce:
As many Americans are trying to think about J.D. Vance at one time saying that Trump could be America's Hitler, I have, for several months, and in limited ways available to me, been pushing for warnings to America about parallels between Hitler and Trump.
Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Similarities and differences between Hitler and Trump (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com)Today, I particularly take note of the article
25 of the richest donors funneling money to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Steve Schwarzman, and more, which, for me, calls to mind the history of Nazi Germany and Hitler's maneuvering with German corporate leaders to get them to support him, as led to Hitler ultimately acquiring absolute power in Germany.
In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power.
Below is an email I sent to chairs of the Samford, Montevallo, UAB and UA history departments that I hope you will read.
I further hope your chamber of commerce will seriously think about all of this.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
[referenced below email is above Follow up email to chairs of Samford, Montevallo, UAB and UA history departments]
