Finally I saved my templates in unicode, actually (I guess) utf-16 instead of utf-8. Their size on disk doubled and mako started complaining about a "CompileException("Unicode decode operation of encoding 'utf-8' bla bla", so I changed the first line in all of them in.
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.