You have not had many replies mainly because it is too long to read. However, I read it all through. I think you are surrounded by a lot of emotional people who blow everything up out of proportion.
Stop worrying about them. Concentrate of your wife and baby. They are the most important people in your life now.
The reason I say this is because no matter what you do, what you say, you will never please the others. You know the saying. 'If you can't please everybody please yourself' If you keep worrying your life will remain unhappy.
That is a waste so enjoy your wife and baby. Leave the others to sort themselves out. Otherwise you will end up the same as all of them.
Stick by your wife and baby. They matter.
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.