Genocide perpetrators

In Holocaust and genocide studies, perpetrators, victims, and bystanders is a typology for classifying the participants and observers of a genocide, first proposed by Raul Hilberg in the 1992 book Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: Jewish Catastrophe 1933–1945. Although considered a key element of scholarship on genocide, the typology has also been criticized for vagueness and leading to overgeneralization.