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- 12 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 has received a letter that Günther wrote on 1 December. She hopes that his visit will make up for the lack of his newsy correspondence. He will have to come to visit her as she cannot go to Berlin or to Mrs Junge for Christmas as Günther suggested. Travel is very difficult. She also does not want to intrude on his family’s joy at having him home. Hella will be given holidays from 21 December until 5 January. It is estimated that they will be able to sit their final exams in February. Hella’s parents had already told her that Günther would be getting holidays from 28 December and also that he was in Berlin shortly after Hella was there. She leaves him to decide how to divide his holidays. With envelope.
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- Gearmáinis