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- 24 April 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. Although Günther’s letter took a long time to reach her she is going to reply immediately. She puts this down to his good influence. She apologises for not coming to meet him at the station. She had intended to but became unsure when she heard he was not travelling alone. Finally she felt too lazy to get out of bed and get dressed and go down to the station. She promises that this will never happen again should the opportunity arise. Hella comments that he seems to be really enjoying his time in France and that she is jealous of all the new things he is able to experience. Things are going better for Hella and she is becoming very brown. Hella reports back that her first night on air raid duty went well though she was tired afterwards. With envelope.
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- German