If you had a choice, would you rather experience fear or sadness?

It would depend on the degree of either. I'd rather experience profound sadness than heart stopping fear, because sadness eventually lessens. Once you've been terribly frightened by something, that fear seems to take on a life of its own and stay with you forever.

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.