TOM CRUISE BANNED FROM FILMING THE STAUFFENBERG PLOT IN GERMANY

This is a very, very curious piece of news.

Tom Cruise has been cast as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg who planted the bomb that almost killed Hitler, an event that led to Hitler exacting bloody revenge on anyone and anything connected to the plot with mass executions and imprisonments.

But why would Germany ban him from filming on a German military site? Indeed, why would Cruise, a producer of the film, want to make a film of this plot and want to film it on a German military site?

The film, called Valkyrie, is based on the plot to blow up Hitler in 1944. It would be interesting to see how far and deep the script goes into why von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were forced into such actions following several suggestions from Admiral Canaris which were refused by FDR and Churchill to hand Hitler over to the Allies because they wanted "the utter destruction of Germany".

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From http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2111637,00.html

Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military site because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the defence ministry has said.

Cruise, one of the film's producers, is a well known member of the Church of Scientology, which the German government does not recognise as a church and says is against the country's constitution. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientologist leaders reject.