WWII Past-Life Recollection with Benjamin Carraud

Summary

Benjamin Carraud, a young French businessman working in Shanghai, began having vivid, uninvited first-person flashbacks of leading German soldiers on the Eastern Front. Through hypnotic regression and careful historical research, he came to identify with SS Sturmbannführer Eugen Kunstmann, a Totenkopf division officer killed on July 8, 1943, when two anti-tank rounds struck his command tank. Kunstmann's own family confirmed details he could not easily have known, and Carraud describes his memories of the time between lives, including a review of his actions and his return to a new birth.

Key takeaways

• 1Carraud's flashbacks began in Shanghai at age 24. In 2016 he saw a documentary by French journalist Stéphane Allix and recognized parallels with the James Leininger past-life case.
• 2In the book 'Tigers of the Death's Head', he found a 27-word passage saying SS Sturmbannführer Eugen Kunstmann died on 8 July 1943 when his command tank was hit by two anti-tank rounds, matching the two shots he recalled in regression.
• 3He found Kunstmann's name on 9 November 2017, which was Kunstmann's birthday (born 9 November 1909).
• 4In regression he recalled a 'Georg' being told of his death. Kunstmann's family later confirmed that Eugen's brother Georg Kunstmann served in the same division and was the family's only source on how Eugen died.
• 5He contacted the Kunstmann grandson, Tim, through an eight-year-old post on the Axis History Forum. Archive photos matched his description of Kunstmann's father, a toy shop owner.
• 6He describes an 'intermission' period spent stuck on the fields of the Battle of Prokhorovka (four days after Kunstmann's death), a guiding female being, and seeing his current parents meet in 1987. His parents confirmed the details. His case was examined by reincarnation researcher Dr. James Matlock, and his book is 'Goodbye, Fields of Prokhorovka'.

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And then I found a paragraph of 27 words that said, I'm trying to paraphrase it, the 8th of July 1943 was a dark day for the regiment because his commander, SS Sturmbannführer Eugen Kunstmann, the name, died when his command tank was hit by two anti-tank rounds. Disregard the fact that the information given somehow matches what I remember about the two shots. I think what completely took me was reading the name Eugen Kunstmann. When I read it, it was just an insane amount of mixed emotions. That was my entry door to actual research into the actual events of that day and what happened to that officer. Keep watching to learn more. The New Thinking Allowed Magazine, Issue 10, on UFOs and UAP, is now ready for free download. And you can also order beautiful printed copies. Go to newthinkingallowed.org. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed Dialogue Series is Charles T. Tartt, Seventy Years of Exploring, Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed Conversations on the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. Today we will be looking at a model case of how one individual investigated their own spontaneous past life imagery. My guest is Benjamin Korod, who is an author of a new book, Goodbye, Fields of Prokhorovka, Past Life Memories of a Waffen SS Officer. Benjamin is actually based in Vietnam. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Oct 9, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.