There's no need to use AUTOINCREMENT, but every table should have a PRIMARY KEY of some kind. A primary key can be a combination of several fields that together identify the record uniquely.
Having a PRIMARY KEY (or a UNIQUE constraint) will, first, ensure that these values are really unique, and, second, will greatly improve the searches for a given enquiry.
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.