Who are these "people" your talking about. Ive heard more men bragging about men being smarter than women than the other way around. Sure their are some women smarter than most men and their are men who are smarter than most women but in general men and women tend to be in the same range.
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.