I'm sure they just guffawed and shook their heads at the ragged ignorant superstitious desert nomads who wandered into their civilization regurgitating their ludicrous hallucinations as if they amounted to anything other than desert mirages and ghost stories.
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.