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- 20 July 1948 (Creation)
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2 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 at 29 Hannover BMH to Hella at Bristol Hill Hospital, Berlin. Bill states that the papers for Hella to travel have been sent through official mail to Major Baggs along with a letter asking him to help her. He reminds her that the papers belong to her alone and nobody else and tells her to get Major Baggs to sign the papers saying that she has priority. He has arranged for them to celebrate her arrival with Willi and his girlfriend, as Willi has done so much to help. He finishes the letter by thanking her for her last letter and asking her to write again soon, also saying how much he loves her. With envelope.
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- English