God knows your heart, you can't stand before judgement and say that you kissed a bible before you took poison, so now you must be forgiven.
People like Hitler cannot repent before death. You cannot sin thinking that later you will ask for forgiveness. I did not commit adultery, because I am a follower of Jesus.
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.