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- 21 August 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 Charlottenburg, Berlin. She starts by saying that a letter she had sent to Günther on the 7th has been returned as the address was unknown. She admits that whilst she sometimes deliberately makes him wait for news from her, this time she was innocent. It is difficult to obtain paper to write letters on. The weather is extremely warm, but she is able to buy ice cream from the money earned whilst working. The school still does not know where it will be sent. She is enjoying frequent trips to the cinema. She suggests recording letters on tape instead of writing them, but thinks that she would soon run out of things to say. With envelope.
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- German