A handwritten letter has been found in a German archive in which President-elect Donald Trump’s grandfather unsuccessfully fought his expulsion from the country for failing to perform mandatory military service.
Bild newspaper on Monday printed the 1905 letter located by a historian, in which Friedrich Trump wrote Bavarian Prince Luitpold begging the “well-loved, noble, wise and just” leader not to deport him. Luitpold rejected the “most subservient request.”
A demonstrator protesting against US president-elect Donald Trump displays a placard featuring a likeness of Trump during a demonstration at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on November 12, 2016. (AFP / John MACDOUGALL)
Trump’s grandfather was born in Kallstadt, then part of Bavaria, and immigrated to the US as a teenager without performing his military service. It was after he’d made his fortune there and tried to resettle in Germany that he was ordered expelled, and returned to the US.
Rhineland-Palatinate state archive spokeswoman Isabell Weisbrod says Friedrich Trump’s birth certificate is also in the archive.
— AP
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