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- 4 February 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 Fürstenwalde. He has been meaning to write but things have been very busy. He estimates it is about 14 days since Hella would have heard from him. He has received two of her letters and especially enjoyed the second. In her last letter Hella has wondered what it would be like to quarrel with Günther. He replies that they are both so stubborn it is inevitable that at some point they will have a big quarrel. However, he thinks it is best to wait until they live nearer each other and not to have a quarrel via letters. He does not have much news. Every day is much like the other. They are on flying duty every second day and on Sundays, too. When they are not flying they are busy with lessons or sport. The sport facilities are very basic but enough for Günther whose only goal is to pass the Reichs-Sport badge again. Hella is much better at sport than he is. He asks when he will get the promised photo of Hella. For a while now, he has had one of himself ready and waiting. He read her last letter during class as he was not able to discipline himself to wait. He wishes her good luck for the coming Sunday and lots of fun. He probably will be on flying duty on Sunday but hopes to be able to be free. With envelope.
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- German
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In Sütterlin script.