About Writing. In a historical novel or short story, set in Poland for example during WW2, is it?

No, you should be realistic and honest in your depictions of the time period. Most modern Germans know the Nazis were bad people, and only deluded people that belong to the denial of the Holocaust conventions, and who hang out with Ahmadinejad would get upset about that. Besides, no one makes people read books that offend them.

If someone is offended by something, well they do not have to read it.

The more realistic the novel is, the better it will be. A good writer always tells the whole truth. Who cares if people get offended?

We have become such a whiney society that worries too much about what other people think and who will be offended. I'm a huge open-minded liberal and I feel this politically correct sensitivity nonsense is stupid. Don't feel ashamed to express your opinions, especially if you are reflecting history accurately.

We are all sick of the "apple pie with a smile" historical novels anyway. Give us the ugly truth.

You use the mode of dialogue and narration appropriate for the time you are writing about, without going over the top with obscure language.

NewHorizons, I think you may love reading City of Thieves. It's set in Russia, not Poland, but it will answer a lot of what you are struggling with. It's also a marvelous book.

Writer can has a problems if he will promote nazi ideology by the way. If you will write a book DESCRIBING but NO PROMOTING, I think that all will be good.

Thank you all you good people. This is the narrative I have written if you like to read a short historical short story.

Some Germans might take offense. Most probably will not as they were either not born, or not old enough to be involved.

As a writer, I'd highly recommend you sit down and decide who your audience is before beginning. The days of widely appealing novels are just about over. The #1 best seller in the US is The Bible.It didn't really worry too much about what Jews or .

As for the 3rd question, you'd have to define trouble. Legally, assuming you're from the US, you can't get in any trouble by writing short of specifically threatening something or someone else with violence. If you're looking for a critical success, then as long as it's in the context of a specific time, and from the perspective of a character, I don't see it as being damaging in any way.

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.