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- 17 May 1943 (Creation)
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3 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 officers’ quarters somewhere near Belgrade. Günther carried a letter for Hella around for three days but never got the chance to mail it, so he is writing a new one. It makes him sad to hear that she is always so disappointed when no letter from him is in the mail. It takes him a long time to finish a letter because he gets distracted so easily. Günther hopes they will be able to spend time together in a couple of weeks since writing letters is getting boring. It will be his last holiday in Berlin before his deployment, and he wants her to make sure she will be in town. Günther will arrive between the beginning and the middle of June. He saves whatever he can to spoil Hella when they see each other. With envelope.
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- German
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In Sütterlin script.
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This document is water-damaged.