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- 17 April 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 at the O.U. (Offiziersunterkunft i.e. officers’ quarters) somewhere near Belgrade. It was not too hard for Günther to leave Berlin since he was lucky enough to get a padded seat by the window. He had hoped for her to show up at the train station and was even a little mad that she did not, but it was probably too early in the morning for her. The train ride went as planned, except for an unexpected 1-hour layover in Vienna. He found it interesting to get a glimpse of the former monopolies in the Southeast (Günther wrote ‘Monopolen’, but may have meant to write ‘Metropolen’, i.e. metropolises). Unfortunately, they travelled through Hungary and Croatia at night and, therefore, did not get to see much of the landscape and population there, but to him, people from the Balkans look the same anyway. It seems a little better where he is, thanks to the Volksdeutsche, who have lived there for a long time. The temperatures are high, sometimes above 40° C in the sun. Compared to their previous station, the accommodation is appropriate for officers, which he greatly enjoys. They also have the opportunity to complement their rations with private purchases. However, the prices are disproportionate to their salary. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis
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In Sütterlin script.
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This document is water-damaged.