Vergeltungswaffe (German for "retaliation weapon", "reprisal weapon" or "vengeance weapon") was a term assigned during World War II by the Nazis to a number of revolutionary superweapons, the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 rocket and the V-3 cannon. As early as a June 28, 1940 meeting of Army Ordnance chief Leebe and Walther von Brauchitsch, a terror bombing rationale had been advanced for the A-4 rocket. However, on June 24, 1944 Joseph Goebbels' official Propagandaministerium announcement of the Ver… (More on Vergeltungswaffe)