They'd get *really* tired. Seriously, people stay up this long and longer all the time. Chronic lack of sleep can cause all sorts of health problems.An occasional 24-hour stint without sleep (well-known as an "all-nighter" in college) doesn't seems like a big problem.
However, even short-term lack of sleep like this slows reflexes and causes attention problems as well as difficulties with short-term memory. The day after an all-nighter is not a great day for driving or for performing dangerous, demanding tasks.
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.