The word atheism was used by greeks name calling for some unbelievers in Zeus, that was 5 centuries before any christian or muslim exist... I let those silenced temples and oracles of the greeks to be enough credible, tangible, verifiable evidence that gods doesn't exist. Those greeks atheist were speaking the truth about invisible friend, the same truth of the Egyptians deities or the Norse or Aztecs or any of the thousand deities...myths and folklore...all deities are the same, including your favorite abrahamic version.
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.