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- 7 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 Günther in Kassel-Rothwesten. During his visit to Berlin, Günther just missed Hella again but was relieved when someone at her house picked up the phone. He is generally surprised that no one he has called has been hit by any bombs so far. Even his uncle’s shop near Alexanderplatz still stands. He thinks it was a little reckless of Hella to go to Berlin as he believes that the Tommies are not done yet. He wants to know if she will spend Christmas with her parents in Berlin. Günther plans to visit Nasiedle and then Hella in Berlin or at her current location. According to Hella’s mother, she has become too skinny, and Günther wants to know if that is true. He tells her to eat enough and gain weight until they see each other in a month. He has not seen the inside of a plane for a long time since the weather has been so bad lately. While writing the letter, he has the honourable task of sitting at a large table and watching over half a dozen telephones, but nothing happens. Although he is very bored, he has at least had the time to finish reading her book. He had difficulty concentrating on the content and would not even be able to tell her what it was about. Günther believes Hella will enjoy the book more than he did because a woman wrote it. At the end of the letter, he apologises for not writing to Hella for a while. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis
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In Sütterlin script.