To protect the child, he would kill the threat. Gandhi was an ordinary man and would kill anyone to protect himself. He wasn't an adherent of a religion, but he was religious and not held to images society had of him or he had of himself, and the drive to survive is the most powerful force in life.
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.