I was just coming to reply the same thing... but the original B&W is 1956 and a 1985 remake! The song she plays has an unknown writer but is a French folk song; Au Clair de la Lune English: In the Light of the Moon.
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.