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Documents granting Hella permission to bring belongings with her to England, along with a typed list in English and German of the personal items to be transported. Also a handwritten note declaring that Hella has no tax debts in Germany.

Police district registration certificate verifying Hella’s residential address in Berlin from 28 July 1950 to 20 October 1950.

A brown envelope containing a handwritten narrative of 37 pages of the last days of the Second World War in Berlin, written by Hella.

Scrap of paper with directions to the home of Eliese Witzke signed by Alfred Witzke. For the Witzkes, also see P14/3/4/2 and P14/5/2/2/5.

Home-made voucher for a festival meal.

This sub-series contains correspondence between Hella Scholz and her sweetheart Günther Junge.

Black and white postcard from Günther of the Lazienki Palace in Warsaw. Sends greetings after his adventures and will write a longer letter soon.

From Günther in Fürstenwalde. Another day is gone. Günther is listening to music in the recreation room and again has nothing to do except think of Hella. Everything went well on Sunday although the journey was long. He thought about phoning Hella’s house in the evening to check that they had not been bombed, but from the newspaper it looked as though they were alright. Thanks to the RAF, Günther managed to spend a few extra hours with Hella. The next few weeks will not offer him a chance to repeat the visit. He is on fire sentry duty next Sunday. When the weather warms up Günther will invite Hella to Fürstenwalde. At the moment it is not very pleasant as all the streets are icy. He asks whether she has passed her certificate of achievement. He then asks if she has any other worries or if she has insomnia. Günther says he has insomnia sometimes but knows who to blame for that. He sends greetings to her parents and thanks them for the invitation to the cinema. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. She got home safely on Thursday and thanks him for ringing her. She hopes to see him before he leaves Fürstenwalde. If the weather remains so awful then he will often be grounded, in which case the final date cannot be 15 March. She asks where he will be moved to afterwards. On Friday for five hours she had to write an essay on the ‘Perceptions of a political thinker’, Hans Grimm. Her school results come out on 21 April but she is not going to let this ruin her Easter holidays even though she does not expect a glowing report. She got a cold swimming and her nasal voice caused the class to laugh at her reading from Antonius’ funeral eulogy for Caesar. She is going to the zoo later that day. In the evening she is going to see the film Meine Frau Teresa with her parents. Her father has just given her a small packet of stamps for Günther’s brother, so she will deliver them sometime soon. The weather today is good so perhaps he could get out flying. She understands that flying interests him more than the theory but says that the theory is important too. With envelope.

From Günther in Fürstenwalde. The past week was busy for Günther. There is a new weekly duty roster, and they have to get up at 4:45 a.m. now. She is right about the fact that he is already tired again by the time she gets up at 7:00 a.m. One day last week, after their flying duty in the morning, they were given rifles and sent into the field. They viewed it as a lovely spring walk in beautiful weather. Normally, they only get to see nature’s beauty from above. At the end of the march, they pretended to fight over a village, which left a strange impression on the residents. The day was a nice change from the usual routine. According to his parents, who he had just talked to on the phone, the attack on Berlin is said to have been one of the worst so far. He hopes that Hella is doing well. Tempelhof is said to have been hit particularly hard. Even some walls of his parent’s house are supposedly missing. Apparently, an aerial mine hit only 100 meters away. He has already set everything in motion to go home and inspect what can be salvaged. Günther thanks Hella for her letter, which has served as a ray of sunshine in the dark for him. Thanks to the practical format of her photo, he can take it everywhere. When he is in a bad mood, he simply looks at it and smiles again. With envelope.