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Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather
Guardian ^ | 11/21/16 | Kate Connolly in Berlin

Posted on 11/22/2016 5:40:36 PM PST by ifinnegan

A historian has discovered a royal decree issued to Donald Trump’s grandfather ordering him to leave Germany and never come back.

Friedrich Trump, a German, was issued with the document in February 1905, and ordered to leave the kingdom of Bavaria within eight weeks as punishment for having failed to do mandatory military service and failing to give authorities notice of his departure to the US when he first emigrated in 1885.

Kallstadt, Germany: on the trail of 'the Donald' in the Trump ancestral home Read more Roland Paul, a historian from Rhineland-Palatinate who found the document in local archives, told the tabloid Bild: “Friedrich Trump emigrated from Germany to the USA in 1885. However, he failed to de-register from his homeland and had not carried out his military service, which is why the authorities rejected his attempt at repatriation.”

The decree orders the “American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump” to leave the area “at the very latest on 1 May ... or else expect to be deported”. Bild called the archive find an “unspectacular piece of paper”, that had nevertheless “changed world history”.

Trump was born in Kallstadt, now in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in 1869. He emigrated to the US aged 16 initially to escape poverty, attracted by the gold rush.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: germany; trump; trumpen; trumpfamily; trumps; trumptransition
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To: ifinnegan

Trump is descended from Palatinians. Now he wants to register them. - Emily Litella


61 posted on 11/22/2016 6:03:27 PM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: TheNext

has = had


62 posted on 11/22/2016 6:03:57 PM PST by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: Genoa
Trump was born in Kallstadt, now in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in 1869.

Dead or maybe he ate that famous Russian yogurt?

63 posted on 11/22/2016 6:04:00 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Jamestown1630

Well, they can be right 66% of the time...and that’s unusual. :)


64 posted on 11/22/2016 6:05:48 PM PST by Daffynition (*Donald Trump represents the WILL of the PEOPLE.*~ Don King 09.24.16)
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To: AndrewB

“Trump is descended from Palatinians. Now he wants to register them. - Emily Litella”

Emily, that’s Palestinians. Trump wants to register Palestinians.


65 posted on 11/22/2016 6:06:49 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: McGruff

I thought Trump was Jewish?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You’re joking right?


66 posted on 11/22/2016 6:07:09 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: TheNext

Trump Lives Matter!


67 posted on 11/22/2016 6:07:19 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: ifinnegan

Oh . . . . . . never mind!


68 posted on 11/22/2016 6:07:53 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Daffynition

Other than destroying a country, for the life of me I can't figure out what is motivating these people to want and even demand millions more people be jammed in? This is extremely odd.

69 posted on 11/22/2016 6:07:55 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ifinnegan
let me see it in writing, by many accounts the name was Drumpf at the time...
70 posted on 11/22/2016 6:08:12 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: ifinnegan

Considering how Germany behaved since that decree, I would say it looks pretty GOOD for Trump


71 posted on 11/22/2016 6:08:29 PM PST by montag813
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To: Chode

The article had scans of the document.


72 posted on 11/22/2016 6:09:41 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan
They can find out little things about Trump's grandfather;
now perhaps they can find Obama's birth certificate and
college records.
73 posted on 11/22/2016 6:09:53 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Genoa
I was. I'm not too sure about him.

Yeah, I liked it, but he obviously didn't get it. He wouldn't know a joke if it came up and bit him on his funny bone.

Now he's embarrassed, trying to save face.

74 posted on 11/22/2016 6:10:12 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs)
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To: ifinnegan
Let's see if the “historian” can find anything about Clinton's or Rodham’s ancestors. I'll bet that Bubba’s father was a two bit grifter from Arkansas. Hilliary's ancestors probably lied about where and why they escaped to these shores.
Forget Obambi, his records were sealed.
75 posted on 11/22/2016 6:10:30 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: ifinnegan
It took the King of Bavaria thirty years to order Fredrich Drumpf (who by the way emigrated first to Canada and then to the United States thirty (30!) years to realize he was gone and to then issue the decree. So much for the much vaunted German efficiency.
76 posted on 11/22/2016 6:11:43 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Buck Ofama!)
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To: Genoa

Such sparkling repartee, such rapier wit. Keep telling yourself that, snowflake. Maybe in some alternate universe it’ll come true.


77 posted on 11/22/2016 6:12:33 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: magna carta

Germans forced my Polish ancestors to flee to the US, during the Kulturkampf.


78 posted on 11/22/2016 6:13:06 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ifinnegan
Sheesh!

Most of our ancestors got thrown out of where ever country they came from or skipped one step ahead of the law.

Does he have the idea that this is disqualifying in any manner?

We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother’s side. - PJ O'Rourke

79 posted on 11/22/2016 6:16:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: ifinnegan

Oh. .....never mind.


80 posted on 11/22/2016 6:16:30 PM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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