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- 2 November 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 Crimmitschau. She agrees that she should use Feldpost rather than waste money on stamps. She is spending her money on apples and managing to get them without using her ration card. They won’t be returning to Berlin. It proved to be just a rumour. She suggests Günther could use some of his leave to visit her. She hopes to get home to Berlin for 2 to 3 days around Christmas. They don’t get holidays, so Hella hopes to achieve this through a letter from the doctor. She accepts his apologies for eating the chocolate, saying he needs it more than her, but as a small punishment can write more often to her as this is the thing that brings her the most happiness these days. She thanks him for saving tobacco for her father and agrees that they should wait until Christmas before giving it. She asks how parcels etc. can be sent to him via field post. With envelope.
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- German