I think all those characters from the Dark Knight just magically becoming super villains is a little hard to perceive. If you look at the comic books batman met most of alter egos of the villians after they had turn to a life of crime. With the Dark Knight ending with Batman as a villian in the eyes of the Gotham's citizens I don't think it would be wise for Warner Bros.
To have all Bruce Waynes colleages to suddenly turn against him. More.
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.