Tom Cruise was "too small" to play Claus Von Stauffenberg in new movie 'Valkyrie', according to a relative of the would-be assassin.

THE Church of Scientology accused a German newspaper of being “grossly irresponsible” yesterday for publishing comments by a historian comparing a speech by Hollywood star Tom Cruise to one by a Nazi minister.

Tom Cruise has finally been given permission by the German government to film at a World War II memorial site in Berlin for his new movie, 'Valkyrie'.

Shooting began today in a forest outside Berlin of a film starring Tom Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter.

The news Tom Cruise is to play a German aristocrat who tried to kill Adolf Hitler has angered the Second World War hero's oldest son.