A degree in criminal justice will not benefit you AT ALL it is COMPLETELY useless no law school, nor police department, nor the FBI requires a degree in criminal justice if you want to be a lawyer then you're much better off getting a bachelors in accounting, finance, or computer information systems then you will be able to represent those kinds of case and actually know what you're talking about there are judges and lawyers right now who are trying to decide if google violated oracle's copyright on java's API and I guarantee you half of those people don't even understand what an API is.
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.