You can't change the colours or otherwise modify the GUI in OSX Lion. You can change your wallpaper, dock appearance and icons, but eveything else, aside from a few theme options here and there, is what it is unfortunately.
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.