You make sense. Just look at all the problems in the world, today, and you'll see that people are the cause every one of them. Crime, for instance- look at any prison in the world, and I guarantee it will be full of people!
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.