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From Hella in Crimmitschau. She apologises for not having written and notes that since his visit to Frankfurt, Günther seems to have become quite troubled. She is surprised that he has only just noticed that morale has weakened. She hopes he recovers soon and suggests it is because he hasn’t got much to distract him. She comments on the fact that whilst they both want to read, she can’t because of lack of time and he can’t because he hasn’t got anything to read. She asks what he would like her to send him to read. She is pleased that Günther is going to try to come and visit. She is not happy at the moment and to cheer herself up is focussing on the upcoming Mountain Festival, Christmas and a visit to Hans. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. She is delighted with the parcel of chocolate Günther sent and hopes to see him soon in Crimmitschau. She is still not sure if she will be given holidays over Christmas so that she can come to Berlin. Life in the camp is still hard. Now they are no longer allowed to whistle or play the gramophone. During the camp leaders absence one day, they all went wild with the freedom. She discusses the upcoming leaving exams. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Hella is tired from working hard, but nevertheless is sitting down to write a reply to his last two letters. She teases Günther that lack of sleep is a sign of getting old. She congratulates him on passing his training on the Heinkel He111 transport/bomber plane. She was unable to do her swimming exam as she had a cold. She had an argument with her father yesterday as they both hold different political views. She got a 4 for her French work. She says some people just seem to be luckier than others and she counts Günther among them. She asks him for a tip on how to get more luck. She returns greetings from her parents. Her mother’s gall bladder is playing up. Apologises for her messy handwriting but she is tired. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. She is home alone as the rest of her family have gone out for the evening. In the afternoon she and a female friend went for a walk along the Ku’damm [Kurfürstendamm] and into the Café Marquant for a hot drink. It was too crowded to be enjoyable. She is listening to a radio programme with Eugen Klöpfer, Maria Koppenhöfer and Margarete Klose which she is finding funny as it is so bad. She has recently become lazy at school because she is thinking about Günther so much. She finds it strange that they have only known each other for three months and yet understand each other so well. She would like to know what it would be like to quarrel with him. She asks if he is on pilot duty today and comments that the weather was good for these but asks him to be careful and remember Torgau. They are doing a lot of sport at school and the swimming instructor is demanding more from Hella than the others. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. She thanks Günther profusely for his photo. Says she tried to get a decent photo of herself for him, but when she went to the photo shop it was shut until further notice, so she couldn’t pick up the negatives until the next day. Until she can get a decent photograph she is sending him a picture from the summer. She does not have much to report aside from school news, of which she says Wenn nichts schief geht, ist in einem Jahr auch dies Martyrium überstanden (‘If nothing goes wrong, this ordeal will be over in a year’). She has returned to sport and loves swimming. On the day of writing the letter she went for a walk in Grunewald which she renames ‘Barrackwoods’. She will write again when she has time, rather than waiting for a letter from him. With envelope.

From Hella in Berlin. She encloses the long promised photo of herself and asks for an honest judgement of it. She jokes about being ‘under his finger’ and hopes the photo will cheer him up when he is down. She does not understand why he is sad that his promotion to officer candidate has been delayed and asks him to explain whether this promotion is important or not. She says that Günther must have worked hard at home during his leave and that hopefully it now looks worthy of human inhabitation and that his mother has moved in with his brother. It is not pleasant to be dependent on friends but in times of emergency anything goes. The other evening she and some friends mistook the date and ended up at a Mozart and Brahms concert instead of a poetry evening. The concert was being broadcast on radio. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Hella is disappointed not to have received a letter from Günther yet but thinks he may need time to settle in Schleissheim. She hopes he has been able to meet up with old friends and has not had unpleasant news of them. She still enjoys remembering their holiday and has enclosed some photos from the holiday for Günther. Things have returned to normal for Hella including skipping school. She only has three days left of school and then on 17 July redeployment starts. She hopes this will not get in the way of their planned trip to Binz. Her mother thanks him for the holiday cards. They cheered her up, especially coming at the end of the month when things are usually tight. Hella has hurt her ankle and wonders if this will affect her redeployment so that she would be reassigned to ‘conditionally fit’ so that she won’t have to leave Berlin. Some of her classmates have gone on holiday without knowing when or where their redeployment will be. Hella surmises that this carefree attitude is because it is their last summer holiday. Hella has to go to the doctor every second day. She plans to read ‘love stories’ that evening to cheer herself up after not hearing from Günther. She restarts the letter on 30 June. She has had news of Günther from his mother. Hella writes how upsetting it has been for her not to hear news from Günther especially when she has made such an effort to change herself. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Hella has received Günther’s letter. She had just come back from a shopping trip with his mother. They were trying to decide which photo of Günther they preferred. Hella has to go to Meyer herself tomorrow as she needs a passport photo for an ID card. Yesterday Hella was told where she would be redeployed. She had to use some persuasion to be assigned to the same Kindergarten in the Olympic stadium that she worked in last summer. A friend of hers is coming too. As the leader was an old school friend of Hella’s older sister Gisela, she also managed to be granted summer holidays immediately rather than having to wait like the others until September. So Hella’s planned three-week trip is safe. They leave on Thursday. She starts work on 1 August. She will have to start at a children’s home in Krawinkel in Thüringen to provide cover for a few weeks. She spent today visiting various ice cream parlours. With envelope.

From Hella in Binz, Rügen. The post was brought down to the beach to Hella. She received permission from her parents but a cancellation from Günther, so she will travel directly back to Berlin before she starts work. She did not enjoy swimming yesterday because of oil in the water from boats. The navy is unpleasant both on land and water. They are having frequent air raid alarms both during the day and at night but have seen no sign of planes. They do not have sirens here, so someone cycles through the town with a machine that makes a strange noise. She is sad he did not particularly like the small photo she sent. They have taken nine rolls of film during their holiday but will get them developed in Berlin. She hopes he will like one of these. A man had also been filming Hella but Hella is thankful that she did not notice him. She assures Günther that she is really Aryan but refuses to become pale again just to please him should he think of asking. As she wrote the letter, somebody was playing piano in the KLV home. They must have been homesick as they were playing melancholy pieces. With envelope.

From Hella in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Hella complains about the heat. She was on air raid duty. At the end of the week she has to bring a transport of ten children to Thüringen, part of the removal of all children from elementary schools in Berlin. She has also volunteered to meet evacuees at the Zov Railway station every morning. She has shaky hands as she writes and puts this down to having had to carry heavy milk pails in the morning. She is very tired. With envelope.