If you had no nervous system, you would not be able to move, feel any sensation, experience any emotion or thought. If parts weren't there, for example, the spinal cord, you would lose all physical sensation from your spinal cord down and would have to breath through a respirator. You would not be able to move.
If your brainstem went missing, you'd be dead. This controls heartbeat and respiration. If your brain went missing, you wouldn't even know you existed.
If your autonomic nervous system went missing, you would be dead because your heart would stand still in your chest.
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.