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- 2 December 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 is enjoying being back, especially as the leaders of the camp have left and it is snowy. She was sad not to find a letter from Günther waiting for her. It has been three months since they have seen each other, so she is sending him some pictures of herself. Others have told her that she now looks much thinner than she was in the pictures. But she cannot believe this as the others are getting fatter. No-one is allowed to go to Berlin for Christmas so Hella does not know where she will be, but she will get holidays. They had a celebration last night and called it the ‘Mountain festival’. Because of the presence of the teachers the atmosphere was a bit strained. She finished his chocolate in Berlin. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis