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- 10 May 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 Hella in Berlin. She calls Günther a monster. First she had to wait a long time for his letter, and when it does arrive, it contains a dressing down. Hella admits that Günther is probably right in what he says, as others have said the same, and Hella promises to make an effort. Hella cried her eyes out today over a maths test. If she had got a two in the test, she would also have got a two in her report card. However, she had to hand her paper in blank. She could not do the test. None of her neighbours would help her in spite of pokes in the ribs and messages. They have heard that there redeployment will take place from the middle of May until 1 September. They were examined today and Hella was one of the few who passed as fit to work in a hospital, with a family with many children or in the government bunkers for children. Those who are conditionally fit will work in offices. Hella is looking forward to not having to go to school. She asks Günther not to take her teasing to heart. She reports that one of his letters took three days to arrive. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis