Superstitions are what they mean. For any phenomena there will be people who believe and those who oppose. People become superstitious when they start accepting random occurances as real patterns.In certain cases people corelate events and find patterns which are well known superstitions hence become believers.
What is superstition to others is reality for them hence those people continue being superstitious.
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.