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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.

From Hella in Berlin. Apparently Günther became quite angry when Hella’s letters went missing in the post and he thought she had not written. She talks about a terrier Günther has got. Her birthday is coming up and she talks about her plans. She really misses him. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. This time Hella is genuinely sick with a bad cold and is in the 'sick room’. There are three others in the room with her and they are hoping no one else joins them. Hella passed her school leaving exam for athletics. It was difficult as she was not feeling well. She sympathises with Günther needing to sleep a lot and gives him advice on how to deal with depressive thoughts. Hella is finding it difficult that there is so little provision for private space. There is a rumour that the 8th class will return to Berlin at the beginning of November. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. She had a sleepless night and wanted to get up and write to Günther but that would have disturbed the others. Now it is daytime and she cannot remember what she wanted to write. She thanks him for a parcel he sent and replies to comments in his letter. She reports where she is sitting writing the letter and that she is feeling happier. She has become the comforter to those around her who are distressed, but says there is no one there to comfort her. She asks if she can bring her troubles to Günther. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. She agrees that she should use Feldpost rather than waste money on stamps. She is spending her money on apples and managing to get them without using her ration card. They won’t be returning to Berlin. It proved to be just a rumour. She suggests Günther could use some of his leave to visit her. She hopes to get home to Berlin for 2 to 3 days around Christmas. They don’t get holidays, so Hella hopes to achieve this through a letter from the doctor. She accepts his apologies for eating the chocolate, saying he needs it more than her, but as a small punishment can write more often to her as this is the thing that brings her the most happiness these days. She thanks him for saving tobacco for her father and agrees that they should wait until Christmas before giving it. She asks how parcels etc. can be sent to him via field post. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. She has received a letter that Günther wrote on 1 December. She hopes that his visit will make up for the lack of his newsy correspondence. He will have to come to visit her as she cannot go to Berlin or to Mrs Junge for Christmas as Günther suggested. Travel is very difficult. She also does not want to intrude on his family’s joy at having him home. Hella will be given holidays from 21 December until 5 January. It is estimated that they will be able to sit their final exams in February. Hella’s parents had already told her that Günther would be getting holidays from 28 December and also that he was in Berlin shortly after Hella was there. She leaves him to decide how to divide his holidays. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. She mentions Günther’s letter from 7 December. She has just seen the film Geliebten Schatz. This is the second time she has been to the cinema since coming here. Although the holidays have started, they will get their certificates the next day. Hella has applied for permission to travel from the Dresden authorities, but still has not heard. Soon it will be too late to let Günther know by post. Günther, through comments made by Hella’s mother, has become concerned about Hella being underweight. Hella seeks to reassure him that she isn’t. She is sorry that he didn’t like the book on Cyprus. She ends by saying how much she is looking forward to seeing him, whenever that may be. With envelope.

From Hella in Crimmitschau. After a difficult return journey, she arrived back only to find that the final exams would not be taking place until the end of March. This means that she won’t get a break after sitting her exams and before she has to start her ‘work conscription’. On arrival at the camp, Hella got a fever and was sent to bed. Her stomach is no longer used to the good food that her mother gave her. She is better now. On her return journey she bumped into girls from her class who had been in Berlin even though forbidden to. The journey was very slow. One woman became unwell. She is craving apples. With envelope.