(21 Nov 2016) A handwritten letter 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 was shown to media on Monday.
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 expelled, and returned to the US.
German newspaper Bild printed the 1905 letter located by an historian, in which Friedrich Trump wrote to Bavaria's Prince Luitpold begging the "well-loved, noble, wise and just" leader not to deport him.
Luitpold rejected the "most subservient request."
Rhineland-Palatinate state archive spokeswoman Isabell Weisbrod says Friedrich Trump's birth certificate's also in the archive.
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