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- 11 and 22 July 1943 (Creation)
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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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Envelope containing two letters from Hella in Binz, Rügen. In the first letter, Hella is having a lovely holiday sunbathing and wishes Günther could also be there. The journey there had a few difficulties. They were at the station three hours before departure and so got good seats. She was impressed by the journey over the Rügendamm and the view from there of Stralsand. On arrival they found they could not all stay together at the place they had originally booked so they booked into another place. It is lovely but the neighbours are not. On one side there is a KLV [Kinderlandverschickung] home [for evacuated children] and on the other is an SS recreational home. However, they are out all day every day so this is not really a problem. They nearly had to go home on the second day as they did not have a ‘holiday certificate’. Hella had to write to the Kreigseinsatzstelle (War Office) to ask for a statement assuring their importance to the war effort. She is certain this will come through. In the second letter, Hella has an upset tummy from drinking too much buttermilk and followed by a lot of swimming. At 2 am last night she went for a walk in her dressing gown with a friend. She has been here for 14 days and the time has flown as she has really enjoyed in. She learnt from his mother that Günther has been stationed in Mecklenburg for four weeks and hopes that soon he will be able to return to Holland as he wants. She is sorry to have missed his short visit to Berlin. Yesterday she received not only a letter from him, but also a letter Hella had sent to Ingolstadt. She will send it on to Günther with this letter. In the bad weather they go walking. Recently they went on a walk towards Sellin but had to turn back as there were so many SS. Today they have been forbidden to go on the beach because of the threat of planes.
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- German