Somewhat artificial, but if you use your path as a clipping path you may be able to then obtain its bounds by calling getClipBounds, and from there you can easily calculate the scale transformation needed to make it resize to fit a canvas.
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.