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- 9 March 1943 (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 Charlottenburg, Berlin. She is sorry to have missed his phone call on Sunday and is sorry to hear of the damage done to his parents’ house in the bombing. She hopes that the house can be repaired. The Tommy scouts came during the day yesterday, but unfortunately the all-clear sounded early enough for Hella to have to go to school. Her mother has packed up their valuables and put them in the cellar to protect them from bombing. But in the cellar they are not safe from robbers. When he rang she was at a friend’s. Yesterday she went to see the film Sophienlund and found it to be too idealistic but very amusing. Tonight she is going to a German poetry evening. Will Quadflieg from the Schiller Theatre will be reading work by Hölderlin, Fichte, Nietsche, Binding, Goethe, Schiller etc. Hella says that Quadflieg is a heartthrob for young girls and even she liked him before the ‘grey times’. She asks if he has heard anything about where he will next be stationed. With envelope.
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- German