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- 31 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 Charlottenburg, Berlin. She arrived home the evening before and is surprised at the atmosphere in Berlin. In Binz the rumours and gossip could be ignored, but in Berlin everyone is listening to them. At first she became very worried then decided that the situation, although bad, was not as bad as all that. Those living in Berlin got a shock when Hamburg was bombed. On Monday she starts work. She will spend twelve days at the Olympic stadium to cover holiday leave for a Kindergarten assistant before travelling to Thüringen for four weeks. She is glad of the time in Berlin as she will be able to put in some athletic practise for her School Leaving Certificate, something which will be difficult in Thüringen. Her suntanned skin is causing people to stare in Berlin where everyone is so pale. Hella should have gone to get her photo taken at Meyer on Monday. However, when her mother picked up her passport photo she was told that there was no point in using them as Hella was so brown, so Hella will have to wait. If Günther does not like the enclosed photo he should let Hella know. With envelope.
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- German