A lot depends how much you have. To someone living on the street, $50k would be rich. A million is going to seem like a fortune to someone making $50k a year and nothing in the bank.
If you have a million tough, you likely don't feel "rich". I would need to have about $10 million or so before I seriously starting thinking of myself as rich and that is just the top of the "rich" pyramid.
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.