I would recommend contacting your web hosting provider to ask them if it can be restored. Most reputable web hosts keep backups.
It could probably be a site virus but most probable that it was a site crash. Like some have said, most reputable sites have backups.
You better contact your web hosting company and ask if they have backup.
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.