Take your dog to a public place away from it's home, keep your dog on a leash and just sit with it. A dog park is a good place to start with other dogs running around, slowly as your dog relaxes (this could take days, weeks, months sometimes years) move closer to the other dogs until your dog is no longer afraid.
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.