Scientology has been monitored in Germany because it is considered that it poses a threat to the country’s democracy. However, leaders of Scientology reject these claims and Tom Cruise's production partner Paula Wagner said the actors own religious beliefs had nothing to do with to the content of the film Valkyrie.
In Valkyrie Tom Cruise plays the role of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the leader of the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler using a bomb hidden in a briefcase.
Colonel von Stauffenberg's son Berthold has been reported in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper as saying he objected to Tom Cruise playing the role because he is a Scientologist.
