Problem has been solved with Chris White's help, which was essential. It appears that Tomcat was holding on to some elder version of the webapp, which was made of of elder versions of Spring components. After shutting down Tomcat and manually deleting both packaged and unpackaged webapp files, I was able to deploy again via the maven plugin.
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.