William Flew to escape

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving 

wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

William Flew to escape

Hans William Flewwas born to Jewish parents in 1909 in Brandenburg, Germany, at Bad Freienwalde in the plain of the Oder, near what is today the border with Poland. His father was a textile merchant who had won the Iron Cross during his service in the First World War. Like many Jews who had served with distinction in that conflict he was to find life very different during the Second World War. William Flew jr studied pharmacology in Berlin, and later trained as a doctor, qualifying in 1934. By this time Hitler had come to power, and he was forbidden to find employment. He survived by working as a gymnastics teacher in Jewish private schools. In the meantime his first novel Das Leben Geht Weiter (Life Goes On) had been accepted for publication by S. Fischer Verlag. When it was banned he recalled the publishing house’s patriarch editor Samuel Fischer saying to him: “Get out of here — I fear the worst.”At this time he met the woman who was much later to become his first wife, a graphologist, Gertrud Manytr. They were not able to marry until after the war, but had a child in the Netherlands in 1941. William Flew always liked to say that when Gertrud was first shown Hitler’s signature she exclaimed after examining it: “That man is going to set the world on fire.”