I am 32 years old, and I have a twin-sister. Recently we both started having dreams where we are planning to kill Hitler. OK, I know how that "sounds". But please bear with me because it gets a little more interesting ahead.
Certain things about these dreams set them apart from regular dreams. For one thing, I don't look like myself, but I know it's me, and for the duration of the dream I don't even question that... I do not wonder about my present life and why I look different, I simply accept the dream-reality tacitly. Another interesting thing about those dreams is that I don't have much freedom to do or significantly change things, like I am bound to experience certain events without being able to change them. The events also unfold in linear sequence, and again I can't change or prevent them. Sometimes I dream of a recurring situation and it always happens in the same way, where I face the same dangers or obstacles that hindered me before.
Most of the times, the details from the dreams vanish as I wake up and fall into reality. However, once I was able to retain a name after I woke up - it was the name "Schrader". In that dream, for some reason I desperately had to speak to that person. I picked up the phone and demanded to speak to "something Schrader", saying it was urgent, but the operator/secretary/whoever was on the other side of the line said he couldn't be reached. So then I insisted to speak with someone else (I couldn't remember their name after I woke up), but they also were unavailable. I don't know if they were really unavailable of if I was simply denied. And then I woke up, feeling agitated because it felt like I should have spoken to Schrader, as though there was something important I should have told him.
When I woke up, the sick feeling of urgency persisted for a while even though logically those circumstances have no bearing on my present life. Anyway, since at least I remembered that one name of Schrader, I decided to google about it in connection with conspiracies to kill Hitler, since me and my sister often dream about it. So this is where it gets interesting: apparently there was indeed a Schrader who was deeply involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler and set in motion a coup d'état. This Werner Schrader worked in the Abwehr and helped provide the explosives used in the plot, the very ones Colonel Stauffenberg himself took to the Wolf's Lair. A week after the plot failed, Schrader knew it was only a matter of time before the Gestapo linked him to it, so he took his own life and left a note that said “I will not go to prison; I will not let them torture me...”. Another important thing about Schrader is that he had under his care hidden the journal of Admiral Canaris and other documents which were to be provided to the Allies as evidence of the efforts of the German Resistance to bring down Hitler. Schrader relocated those documents as necessary, which must have been very stressful and difficult because there were volumes of them, safe opportunities to move them were rare and secure hiding places were scarce. So it happened that when the plot failed and Hitler prevailed, eventually those compromising documents were found by the Gestapo and as a result hundreds of resistance members were linked to conspiracies and executed.
I just wanted to share this because I think it was interesting that for once I could remember a name from one of my dreams, and the name had some significance in the same context of the dreams. I also want to say that although I always had a great interest in WW2, I never looked into anything about the German Resistance before. It's just something that never occured to me. I always focused on aspects of warfare and I built some tanks and aircraft (scale models), but that't it. My father also has great interesting in the subject, and I always assumed my own interest came through him.
Anyone reading this please let me know what you think about it, or if you ever had any dreams that you feel could be of past-lives I'd love to know how it was for you.
