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- 14 March 1943 (Creation)
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2 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 Günther in Fürstenwalde. Now that Hella has finally sent him a photo of her, he will think about her even more, and they can look into each other’s eyes from afar. He is not sure who is to blame for taking them so long, but he is willing to shoulder most of the responsibility because his shoulders are broader, after all. Günther believes her ‘remote treatment’ is working since his stubbornness slowly seems to turn into softness. Hella spoilt him with three letters in the past week. His comrades noticed how many letters he was getting and convinced Günther to show them her photo. He hopes she will not be mad at him and is confident she did not hide his photo from her friends either. He will stay in Fürstenwalde until further notice since things do not go as smoothly as the leaders had planned. He hopes to take Hella for a walk in Berlin in his Oberfähnrich uniform. He thanks her parents for the greetings and wishes her sister a belated happy birthday. With envelope.
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- German
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In Sütterlin script.