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- 28 July 1943 (Creation)
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2 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. The post was brought down to the beach to Hella. She received permission from her parents but a cancellation from Günther, so she will travel directly back to Berlin before she starts work. She did not enjoy swimming yesterday because of oil in the water from boats. The navy is unpleasant both on land and water. They are having frequent air raid alarms both during the day and at night but have seen no sign of planes. They do not have sirens here, so someone cycles through the town with a machine that makes a strange noise. She is sad he did not particularly like the small photo she sent. They have taken nine rolls of film during their holiday but will get them developed in Berlin. She hopes he will like one of these. A man had also been filming Hella but Hella is thankful that she did not notice him. She assures Günther that she is really Aryan but refuses to become pale again just to please him should he think of asking. As she wrote the letter, somebody was playing piano in the KLV home. They must have been homesick as they were playing melancholy pieces. With envelope.
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- German