Strive for balance in establishing whose perspective informs your study of the Holocaust

Zyklon B was the commercial name for prussic acid gas that killed Jews in the Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and Majdanek. 

Relationship to guideline

This photograph symbolizes the ultimate power of death held by the Nazis.  Teachers should be careful about highlighting the trappings of Nazi power, instead encouraging students to consider how the Nazi perpetrators were able to manipulate elements within the society to implement and legitimize acts of terror and even genocide.  In addition, any study of the Holocaust should address both the victims and the perpetrators of violence, and attempt to portray each as human beings, capable of moral judgment and independent decision-making.