Ah, stop doing it. You will quickly know if it was a waste or not. Do something else that you feel IS worthy of your time.
We all have only a finite amount of time for everything we want to do in this life. We cannot really afford to waste any of it.
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.