1 WalterB, regarding your answer "Your library will have indices of Theses and Dissertations on topics in education and psychology": Thank you for your help! .
I would definitely start with ERIC, which is the most comprehensive resource for education research. ERIC provides bibliographic information (publication titles, abstracts, subjects, etc.) to scholarly journal articles or other publications such as reports and conference papers. You can search ERIC and access to some full-text items at http://www.eric.ed.gov/.
But if you have access to a college or a corporate library, I recommend you to check with the library first to see if they also have ERIC (maybe from a commercial vendor). By doing so it might be easier for you to get full-text for articles that you find in ERIC.
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.