It doesn't matter. The EU will be extinct in a little whlle, Examples in Greece, and Ireland and Portugal and Spain show that the whole thing is unsustainable as long as countries have different types of governments and each government has different priorities and goals. It makes it rather confusing as opposed to American where a central government can order a state to come online with the rest.
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.