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- 23-24 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. He and his comrades are in the middle of their final exams and finished the written part in the morning. He will only be in Fürstenwalde until Friday because they transferred him to Toruń. He has no idea what will await him there but hopes to be able to answer this question in a week. Günther knows that going East should make him sad, but the weather is just too nice to be in a bad mood. He is not even sure if he will be able to come to Berlin again since their march to Toruń will likely take them through Frankfurt [an der Oder] and Poznań. He will be accompanied by two comrades, but not the ones he hoped for. He will have to leave everything behind and find new friends, but at least he has the photo of Hella to hold on to. Günther continues his letter on 24 March 1943. They just sent him back from flying duty because there are no more flights for him to complete. Now, he and a few comrades are supposed to attend class in the morning and go into the field in the afternoon, which they are not thrilled about. He would rather study for the oral exam scheduled for tomorrow or visit Berlin one more time. Günther also complains that he and the tailor keep missing each other. On the other hand, it would not be worth the trouble because he and his comrades will likely be Fähnrich (Second Lieutenant) forever. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis
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In Sütterlin script.