Here are a few techniques. First close your eyes, then open them and look at some text, then close them again and look back at the text. Alternatively you could say that life is a dream and once you die(naturally or by cruelty) only then you will truly wake up and share a nice cup of tea with old friends and laugh about all of the fun and not so fun adventures you had while you slept.So in that case death would be an illusion.
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.