I really like Jinja2. It's an improved form of the django templating system. I use it pretty extensively in my projects.
My experience of Nevow is that examples and documentation are hard to find on the web. There are some basic ones linked from the Nevow homepage (http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodNevow), but nothing like the volume of examples and questions/asnwers you would see with the larger Java frameworks (which I am more familiar with) for example.
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.