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- 17 February 1944 (Creation)
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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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Card from Gertrud Junge in Nasiedle. Gertrud thanks Hella for her heart-warming words. She is deeply saddened by her son’s death and feels connected to Hella because of their shared pain. She would like to have Hella by her side at Günther’s funeral on Tuesday. She hopes they will get a moment to talk on their way back to the train station. Everyone is devastated by Günther’s death, and they receive many condolence cards. Gertrud also thanks Hella’s parents for their kind words. There has been another severe attack on Berlin, and Gertrud hopes that Hella and her family are alright. With envelope.
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- German