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- 8 October 1945 (Creation)
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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. Hans asks Hella how she survived the collapse [of Berlin]. He had worried about her and hopes that she has left Berlin and found shelter with her sister. However, the evidence speaks against this as he has not heard from her. It was hard for him to spend five months in the military hospital. But this is all in the past. He would not be so worried if only he had a sign of life from Hella! He last heard from her in early January. He wishes her a happy 21st birthday. It would be good to see her in Sprendlingen. It is just 15 minutes from Frankfurt. As he writes it is after midnight, he is listening to the Berlin radio and has a picture of her before him. He is now fully a civilian and busy with work but can only be happy when he knows how she is.
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- Gearmáinis