Argonne, the Russians make more sense to me since I have always had anger issues towards the Russians during the war in this life and feel like I have unresolved issues regarding them. They come up in regards to my last days in Berlin during regression quite a bit. I don't really put too much in stock when it comes to dreams, but I do feel like this dream has a lot of elements from my past life, but may not be entirely accurate.
Geevikram, thank you for reading my posts. I remember desperately wanting something more in my life around the time of the rise of the Nazi party. There was of course a bad climate in Germany after WW1 and for me and a lot of veterans it didn't feel too great. When the Nazi party came around it seemed like the best thing to happen in a long time. My life and job were pretty mundane so I thought joining the party would be a great opportunity and a lot of other people thought so too.
I have no direct memories of Jewish people or the camps and I have to be blunt when I say that I think it was really a non-issue for me. It was something that was not even on my radar as I really only cared what was happening with Germany and was really involved in rebuilding the country and being involved in the party. I would venture a guess that no one really blinked an eye if a couple families in their area decided to move away. I think I must have helped with any sort of deportations though that were happening later on and we probably thought people were being sent back to their home countries or internment camps. At the time, it wasn't really a big deal to us that "undesirables" were being sent out of the country. We had a lot of nationalistic and cultural pride and wanted to be homogeneous. There was also a lot of ethnocentrism going on.
The majority of people would not have been okay with extreme or violent methods and I feel like the whole thing must have been very routine, which is probably where movies and such get it wrong. I think many Germans took a hands-off approach but would have been pretty appalled if they saw someone getting beaten up on the street or even killed. That just wasn't our method no matter how bad the movies make us seem. I think 99% of people didn't know where these families were being sent, most just assumed back to home countries or elsewhere. During the war years people had a lot more to worry about than this issue.
Like I said, I have no direct memories of this so I am only basing this off of gut feelings. But I'll be frank in saying that I see a lot of the same things happening in America today with the extreme patriotism, ethnocentrism, etc.
I also believe that committing suicide makes it so you cannot progress spiritually and you will not learn what you need to learn in that life, which is unfortunate. Hopefully I am making up for that now.
Geevikram, I hope you will share you story with us here on this forum. I am interested in hearing more about you.