Juvenile records are sealed for a reason. Some people may disagree with that, and its a legitimate point to discuss, but its extremely arbitrary to say that anyone who is in the media for any reason gets their past dragged up, and the sealed record is buried otherwise.
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.