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- 27 July 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. It is Saturday, Hans’ favourite day of the week as he only has to work a few hours. He makes a few comments on the state of agriculture. He likes the fruit harvest most of all. He has just had a coffee break and some plum cake and asks if there is any fruit in Berlin. If there was a way to send some to Hella in Berlin he would. He complains again about Herr Schwitzke. From Hella’s letters it sounds as though she has everything she needs but he hopes she is not paying too high a price for this. He would have preferred it if she was working for an English company [and not for the British military]. He hopes that the zone borders are soon opened. His first trip would be to Berlin. Recently he has managed to re-establish contact with Berlin firms and friends and so is up to date on conditions there. He asks what she will be doing that evening. He will be accepting an invitation and going dancing. Before this he will go for a swim with his Alsatian puppy.
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- German