This sounds very much like someone I know, and I think just dealing with him all these years has given me infinite patience! People hurt inside for all kinds of reasons, and we need to treat them with compassion and understand their limitations. We really can't help people who don't want to be helped, but we can safeguard our own mental health.
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.