My understanding (having used BeautifulSoup for a handful of things) is that it is a wrapper for parsers like lxml or html5lib. Using whichever parser is specified (I believe the default is HTMLParser, the default parser for python), BeautifulSoup creates a tree of tag elements and such that make it quite easy to navigate and search the HTML for useful data continued within tags. If you really just need the text from the webpages and not more specific data from specific HTML tags, you might only need a code snippet similar to this.
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.