Any kind of 'resistance' to crime protects people. There was a news story some months ago about this little woman who was walking her dog down a wooded path in a park. Three guys came toward her to mug her.
She had a gun in her pocket and pulled it out. She didn't have to shoot, they all ran away. RESISTANCE.
Then there is the story about street gangs who run down city streets slugging people until people started slugging them back. They stopped, again RESISTANCE. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke.
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.