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- 31 January 1950 (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 Bill in Wheatley. He thanks Hella for writing to him. He has delayed replying by a day as he has been busy. He agrees with her that it would be a good idea for her to get a job and backs this up with an example of a sergeant who is married to a Finn he met in Hamburg. The wife works in Oxford and they both have bicycles. Bill thinks they should get a bicycle for Hella. Apologises for any wrongdoing in the past, writing that he will never hurt her again. He is glad that she is going to Berlin to see her mother, but sorry that this will delay her arrival in England by a month. He goes on to ask when he should send on the papers for her to travel to England and finishes by telling her how much he loves her and writes if she needs anything he can send it. A postscript emphasises that Bill needs to know as soon as possible about the papers and writes that she needs to come over as his fiancée and then find work because if she comes over on work papers she could be sent anywhere. With envelope.
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- English