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- 29-30 October 1943 (Creation)
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8 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 Crimmitschau. Everyone around her is studying hard as Hella catches up with her post. Although she hasn’t written in a while she has often thought of him. She is very busy as she is on kitchen duty. She is pleased that she has lost a lot of weight. They have lots of schoolwork. She is only concentrating on the subjects she wants to. At the moment it is German. They are still not allowed to go out much, but Hella often escapes. In answer to his question there is no airport in Crimmitschau but there are in Zwickau and Werdau. The letter is continued next morning. Hella is still unclear about the details of Günther’s plane. She doesn’t feel that she can approach her sachsen comrades as he suggested, as they are avoiding her. She has been nine weeks here and only once to the cinema. However, she does not feel much like going. She closes by saying that it has nearly been a whole year since they met. With envelope.
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- German