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- 23 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 Hella in Binz, Rügen. There is a brief discussion as to whether to write the town Parchim with an ‘h’ or not. Hella and Günther’s mother spell the town with an ‘h’, Günther does not. She likes his idea to come and visit him and plans to do so on her return journey. However, first she wants to ask her parents for permission. She would have trouble with her case which is heavy as it contains things for Thüringen. Therefore she suggests Günther comes to Binz. That evening they hope to see ‘our ships’ [presumably the German navy] on a night practise. Earlier in the evening there was evening entertainment at the spa hotel staged by the H. J. (Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth) for the DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreutz, German Red Cross). It made a nice change. With envelope.
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- German