Human beings try to manipulate and control each other it is not only a sign of jealousy but insecurity and affects everyone at least once in their life. You really need to know who you are so people don't try and tell you, no matter what way the winds try and blow you, you need steady feet.
It's the karmic relationships and actions that attempt to balance themselves and usually have to approximate themselves with similar, and not precise, things and events. So it's not so much the thing's reality in itself, but what it represents karmically that is pushing your life and your decisions. Society is just a surface structure that resembles past karma and suffices for actual things and events.
It's like an American football or a European football stadium would suffice for the Roman Colosseum so the spectators back then become football players that suffice as gladiators. Football is pushed heavily in our psyches because the gladiator events made heavy impressions.
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.