Merry Christmas. It's Christmas time, nothing to be shy about. Australians also celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter, Eid, Diwali, Holi, Chinese New Year, Vietnamese New Year, Ethiopian New Year... No one in my very multicultural area is offended.
It just suits a certain type of person to think those with different beliefs are "baddies" and against the very basic tenets of our society.
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.