Every new Generation ... comes equipped the its "Generation Relevant Knowledge" ... Though I am 70, I still have to ask my kids, to help me with my Computer related problems ... Their Generation came equipped with all the Computer related Knowledge!
Thus, I have to Adapt and Learn Computing ... whereas they, more or less, do it intrinsically ...!
Schooling, by the way, is the Teaching, of Symbolic Values, Adopted by a Society ... in whatever be the child's Society/language ...
And Education, is simply, the Polishing of what the child already Knows ...!
My nephew ... he is 26years old now ... had memorized the whole Koran, by the time he was 8 years old ... meaning, he can recite the entire Koran, in proper order ... from Memory ... like millions of other Muslims ...
The nephew ... knew, where the car's ignition key had to go to start the car ... how to switch on the lights ... and the purpose of Clutch, and Steering wheel ... when he was barely seven months old!
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.