Usually sentiment sentence means that the main entity of such sentence is the object of that sentiment. So basic heuristic is to NER and get first object. Otherwise you should use deep parsing NLP toolkits and write some rules to link sentiment to object.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.