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- 9 July 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 Berlin-Tempelhof. He spent his last days in Ingolstadt in uncertainty because he did not know when they would send him on holiday. When he finally arrived home on Friday morning, he immediately went to Stettiner Bahnhof and looked for Hella, but she was nowhere to be found. After one hour, he went home again and tried to call her for the second time. Someone answered the phone this time, but Hella had already left Berlin for a holiday with friends. Nonetheless, Günther wants to make the most of his time in Berlin since he already has to be in the Netherlands on July 14. He wants to go gliding again, but the weather is too bad. If there was more time, he would love to visit her where she is. He apologises for not writing in a while and hopes that she is not too upset. Günther is very tired while writing the letter because his family had visitors in the evening, and he involuntarily was the centre of attention. He wishes Hella a relaxing time and sends greetings from his mother. With envelope.
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- German
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In Sütterlin script.
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This document is water-damaged.