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- 23 November 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 Hella in Crimmitschau. She encloses a travel book for Günther so that he will have something to read. She has never read it herself. She asks if Günther was involved in last night’s air attack on Berlin. Hella and all in the camp had to spend the night in the air raid shelters. She hopes Hans was not hurt by the attack. She does not know how her parents are as she cannot reach Berlin by phone. She thinks that it won’t help to panic and get upset. Hella asks Günther to write to his mother. This is in response to a letter Hella received from Mrs Junge. The camp is expecting a visit from the District Leader from Dresden. Her parents are asking after Günther.
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- Gearmáinis