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- 20 January 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 Günther in Fürstenwalde. Another day is gone. Günther is listening to music in the recreation room and again has nothing to do except think of Hella. Everything went well on Sunday although the journey was long. He thought about phoning Hella’s house in the evening to check that they had not been bombed, but from the newspaper it looked as though they were alright. Thanks to the RAF, Günther managed to spend a few extra hours with Hella. The next few weeks will not offer him a chance to repeat the visit. He is on fire sentry duty next Sunday. When the weather warms up Günther will invite Hella to Fürstenwalde. At the moment it is not very pleasant as all the streets are icy. He asks whether she has passed her certificate of achievement. He then asks if she has any other worries or if she has insomnia. Günther says he has insomnia sometimes but knows who to blame for that. He sends greetings to her parents and thanks them for the invitation to the cinema. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis
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In Sütterlin script.