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- 28 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 Günther in Kassel. He thanks Hella for her letter. He will get 16 days leave from 28 December and hopes to see her. He asks how her parents are. Using a direct line to Berlin, he phoned them late one evening and no-one answered. Everyone at his home is fine. Tomorrow he hopes to fly over Berlin as he has a trip to Königsberg. He is interested to see how things are in Berlin. His group always seem to be underway somewhere at the moment. The trips to Holland are useful as it is still possible to do some Christmas shopping there. The chocolate supply (presumably back in Germany) is scarce at the moment. He has written twice to his mother this week in response to Hella’s reproaches. He finally suggests that Hella joins him during his leave and comes to Oberschlesien with him. If she doesn’t want to, he will ask his mother. Her heart is supposed to decide the matter. He asks if ‘Herr Gebietsführer’ still comes round to visit them and if he is still presented with flowers. Günther feels that such a sight would mortally wound him. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis
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In Sütterlin script.