[adolph]

We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through

He really write that? That’s some chutzpah.

Also interesting is that the V-2 missile was called a “ vengeance weapon” [0] but Allied bombing of Germany hadn’t started when the V-2 started. [1]

On 22 December 1942, Adolf Hitler ordered the production of the A-4 as a "vengeance weapon", and the Peenemünde group developed it to target London.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_operations_during_...

[genera1]

Allied bombings of Germany began in 1939, the information is even present in the Wikipedia link you provided. V-2 launches against Allies started in September 1944, well after commencement of large scale strategic bombing of German cities, and the name was given to it after successful test launches, also in 1944.