The German Defence Ministry has qualified its position on 'Valkyrie', the new Tom Cruise film which is due to start shooting in Germany this summer.
Reports earlier this week had said that German officials would ban the World War II thriller from shooting in German military areas because Cruise, who will produce and star in the film, is a believer in Scientology.
Cruise is to play the role of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the leader of a failed German military plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Scientology is under official observation by Germany authorities and is considered as a potentially threat to German democracy.
Conservative German member of parliament Antje Blumenthal, an outspoken opponent of Scientology, claimed on her website that Defence Minister Franz-Josef Jung had said that such a film involving Cruise could not be made at his Ministry - where Stauffenberg's offices were and where he was shot after the plot failed.
A Defence Ministry spokesman said that the moviemakers had not asked to film in his ministry's areas, and said if they did, the application would be considered like any other.
