Most dreams don't mean anything at all, and are just incoherent ramblings of the sleeping brain. Sometimes dreams are the subconscious trying to make the conscious mind notice something it's ignoring in waking life, and other dreams have psychological interpretations that are as obvious to the dreamer as to us. I don't believe there is any universal key to dream meaning, though in the Dream Interpretation forum there will of course be many others who disagree with that--I think meanings are personal to the dreamer.
I don't normally say so, but when you have no other answers at all after eight hours, or have only trivial ones (or religious predators, or the website point spammer), I'll chime in then. I'm always dubious when someone claims that a certain dream object or action has a specific waking-world meaning. How could we know such things.
Someone makes a claim on day that dreaming about a grasshopper eating an ice cream cone means that there will be a plague of locusts on an ice cream shoppe, and it becomes canon and repeated as gospel by people learning rote 'meanings' from 'dream interpretation' books and/or websites. Most imagery means nothing at all, or it has obvious meaning. I'm always baffled when some adolescent asks what having dreams about her secret crush kissing her means--the meaning is obvious, and there's little point in asking about it.
Your dream sounds like the random variety. It doesn't mean anything, or it means whatever you want it to mean.
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.