In a dysfunctional civilization run by the business caste atheism is usually part of a careful critique by witnesses to human rights abuses aimed at the moral excuses and professed belief systems of abusers. So is communism. It is a critique of abuses, as well.
The abusers tend to be monstrous tyrants.
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.