I agree with you. We should all keep an open mind. After all if you survive death it would be a real bummer to sit like dead in the dark and do nothing convinced you are dead.
And many are...There are also many in spiritual makeshift graves waiting for judgment day that's not goona happen. There are tens of thousand of them. In the afterlife yo usuperimose your beliefs on reality much faster than we do here.
You will create and see what you believe. Yet if you simply keep your mind open you are much more likely to see what is really there, and enjoy your stay much more.
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.