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- 20 May 1946 (Creation)
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4 pp.
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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 Hans in Sprendlingen. He has just watched Tosch and his head is full of the great love depicted there. This leads him to think about Hella. He asks what is wrong and says that Herr Schrietzke lost her letter, but it was found and he now has it. It says that Hella wants to come and visit in the middle of May and so each day Hans is waiting for her. He cannot come and visit her in Berlin as her parents wish as he cannot get a zone pass no matter how hard he tries. He won’t allow himself to try and travel without a pass as this would be too risky for the company. He mentions the English zone and an unspecified relationship, hoping that it is not a friendly one but only one necessary to get the job done. Hans says that his mother thinks of Berlin as somewhere far away and so does not understand why he had to choose a girl from Berlin. However, he knows that she will be happy with whatever makes him happy. His sister is painting a great picture of Hella for their mother. He has just turned on the Berlin radio and remarks that although it is only a 12-hour car journey to Berlin it is still so far away. He asks her to bring her food coupons with her but they can provide everything else. He hopes her father is feeling better and encloses some stamps for him.
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- German