That's correct behaviour: dumps encodes the json for you. It looks ugly now, but that's just for transmission. To see your unicode string again have to decode it (usually on the other end).
You're doing nothing wrong. Have you tried printing it (or outputting it in a web page)?
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.