German weapons names could carry clues about the departments and patrons behind a project. A Wagnerian name such as Rheintochter could appeal to Hermann Göring. Enzian is harder to pin down because sources connect it to folklore, a book, a play, and the gentian flower. The book, play, and folk tradition may describe stages of the same story, but the evidence here does not settle that. The naming evidence remains suggestive rather than certain.
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German missile names point to patrons and uncertain sources
Rheintochter may have appealed to senior patrons through Wagnerian associations, while sources disagree over the origin of Enzian.