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- 13 October 1946 (Creation)
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6 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 apologises for having been too lazy to write. He was affected by Hella’s last letter. He then side-tracks to narrate a story from the canteen before revealing that he has lost the last two letters Hella sent. They came together and he had begun a reply when he was called away. Now he has lost the letters. He says that unlike previous women in his life, Hans knew that Hella was the woman for him, for life the moment he met her. He reminds her that they need to thank God that they found each other again, especially in such tough times. He feels that due to the separation they have experienced it is only natural that they should sometimes have doubts about their relationship. He has had two pictures taken for his identity card. It is now midnight, the Viennese radio broadcaster is signing out for the night with the song ‘Come back I am waiting for you’ and with these words Hans will say goodbye too. With envelope.
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- German