If so, the answer is no. Sometimes people do not make the same mistake someone else did even though they had no knowledge of the previous person's mistake Or is your question who is the original author of this prophetic cliche? I can tell you that it was not Winston Churchill Churchill may have paraphrased the original quote form George Santayana: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.