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- 11 January 1944 (Creation)
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4 pp. with envelope
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Hella Anna Maria Scholz was born in Berlin on 29 December 1928 as the younger of the two daughters of Bruno Scholz, a merchant in building materials, and Klara née Kaiser. She was educated in Berlin. In 1942, she met Günther Junge, a pilot with the German Luftwaffe. They remained a couple until Günther’s death in an air battle on 27 January 1944.
After the war, Hella worked as a laboratory assistant for a British military medical unit in Hannover. Here, she met her future husband, an Englishman named William Fuller. They married on 1 January 1951 at the Ploughley & Bullingdon Register Office in Oxford, and in February of that year Hella became a British citizen. She and her husband lived in Oxfordshire and had no children. Hella later moved to Penarth in Glamorgan, Wales, where she died on 31 January 2003.
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From Hella in Crimmitschau. She thanks Günther for the parcel full of sweets etc. that he sent. She has sent the coffee beans and cigars onto her parents. She wonders what the New Year will bring. It seems so uncertain, but she hopes it will bring something good for the both of them. She believes they can both play a part in ensuring that something good happens. She relates an incident where she fell out of bed in her sleep. The accompanying envelope was returned to Hella’s Berlin address and is marked with the words Gefallen für Grossdeutschland (Fallen for Greater Germany).
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- Gearmáinis
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This document is water-damaged.