When you inherited the pension from your father you also inherited all the attributes of if, that it was based on his time spent working. Yes it is considered occupational for you as well as it would have been for him had he survived.
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.