Admiral Rickover would drink water from nuclear reactors to prove it wouldn't kill you. I read where it took some guy eating a basket of tomatoes in public to prove they wouldn't kill you. People are afraid of everything.
Now it is Aspertame and gluten and god knows what else. It is a freaking miracle that people have lasted for 4 million years.
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.