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...flap erupted in June, after the Defense Ministry announced that it was going to bar filming at the Bendler Block. A key reason behind the decision, according to officials at the time, was Cruise's affiliation with Scientology. In Germany, where the government provides assistance to organized religions, a 1995 court ruling determined that Scientology was a cult "masquerading as a religion to make money." Moreover, the film's subject is close to the hearts of many in the German military. Cruise is playing Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a square-jawed young Prussian colonel who tried to assassinate Hitler...
...Church of Scientology, which the German government considers a cult. But now officials have changed their minds. Cruise's film company is making a movie tentatively titled Valkyrie, about a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler. The film can now include several scenes shot at the so-called "Bendler Block," a building complex in central Berlin where the officer was executed. Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe told reporters that a consideration of the film's script led to the decision. The film shows that "barbarism didn't triumph but led to the founding of a democratic Germany," he said...
...Nazis still withheld the names of all but four of the Wehrmacht officers who may have had a hand in the attempt on Hitler. But Dr. Goebbels did not hide the fact that Berlin's Guard Battalion had had to seize the Ministry of War in the Bendler-Strasse, where the Army High Command makes its headquarters, carry out impromptu executions in its courtyard...
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