If you're worrying about encryption, I think everything in the last ten years has been a minimum of 128-bit. You could call up this site: https://cc.dcsec.uni-hannover.de/ If anything shows less than 128, worry. I don't think you'll have to.
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.