Scientific Crimes Against Humanity for All Humankind: Accounting for the Space Legacy of Aryan Criminology and Nazi Aerospace Science

Yarin Eski*

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Abstract

This chapter goes back in history, critically addressing how space exploration ‘for all humankind’ originates from a dark place; a place where the criminological and aerospace sciences, unitedly, profited from as well as assisted the Nazi regime and its crimes against humanity. During the Second World War criminology - specifically Aryan biological criminology - seems to have functioned as an initiator, accelerator, and amplifier of Nazi crimes against humanity. Simultaneously, Nazi aerospace science and one of its prominent scientists, Wernher von Braun, developed the V-2 rocket that gave the Nazi regime a most destructive power; a power the United States was highly interested in on developing as well by exploiting Nazi scientists and knowledge, as this chapter will discuss. This chapter will conclude on the dark origin of space exploration and ties with Nazi criminology; a past that critical space criminology must account for.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCrime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Perspectives
EditorsYarin Eski, Jack Lampkin
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter1
Pages8-25
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781040151945, 9781003437178
ISBN (Print)9781032567907
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Publication series

NameRoutledge Studies in Crime and Society

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© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Yarin Eski and Jack Lampkin; individual chapters, the contributors.

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  • Lift off! Ruimtecriminologie in Nederland

    Translated title of the contribution: Lift off!: Space criminology in the NetherlandsEski, Y. & van Sintemaartensdijk, I., 13 Dec 2024, In: Justitiële Verkenningen. 50, 4, p. 107-112 6 p.

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