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- 16 August 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 Parchim. He was very busy the past few days and finally has time to write a letter to Hella today. He had to stay up late and get up early for flying duty. Since those in charge of the flying roster have no idea what they are doing, 20 men stand around while two are in the air. Günther thinks it is a massive waste of time and that he could write to Hella instead. He is waiting for a letter from Hella every day, but nothing so far. He wonders if her auxiliary services are keeping her that busy. At first, Günther was excited to hear that Hella was also doing train station service, but he did not expect her to have too little time to write to him anymore. After all, her letters are the only thing to bring joy to his life. Günther and his comrades have no leave, and there is no cinema. He misses Hella and does not know where she is. The last thing he heard was that she wanted to go to Thuringia. His mother left Berlin, and lives on a farm in an Upper Silesian village with his brother. Günther wants Hella to send him her new address if she has moved. Her photo hangs over his bed now so she can watch over and protect him. With envelope.
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- German
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In Sütterlin script.
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This document is water-damaged.