Just to be clear, past lives could've been in the future, since there's only one soul and it lives outside of time, going around and inhabiting everything to ever live at random, one at a time.
No I can not. We have no past lives. We only live once.
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.