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- 11 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 Berlin. She encloses the long promised photo of herself and asks for an honest judgement of it. She jokes about being ‘under his finger’ and hopes the photo will cheer him up when he is down. She does not understand why he is sad that his promotion to officer candidate has been delayed and asks him to explain whether this promotion is important or not. She says that Günther must have worked hard at home during his leave and that hopefully it now looks worthy of human inhabitation and that his mother has moved in with his brother. It is not pleasant to be dependent on friends but in times of emergency anything goes. The other evening she and some friends mistook the date and ended up at a Mozart and Brahms concert instead of a poetry evening. The concert was being broadcast on radio. With envelope.
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- German