To some extent, it may not matter, because in community property states, you share responsibility for your wife's new debts anyway. If she cannot get approved on her own income and credit rating, officially a co-signer can only help, but with weak credit, won't help much. Beware any buy-here pay-here used car places.
The combination of car condition, price, and interest rate is usually outrageous.
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.