I Was with You Right Up Until You Said "Nazi"

Several extras were injured when they fell out of a truck during the filming of "Valkyrie," which stars Tom Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter.

The accident happened Sunday evening while scenes were being shot around the Finance Ministry in Berlin, which was once the Nazis' aviation ministry. . . .

"Valkyrie" stars Cruise as Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic army officer executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.

The casting of Cruise has attracted controversy in Germany because the 45-year-old actor is an adherent of Scientology, which the German government considers a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people.

Some critics maintain that one of Scientology's members shouldn't be playing one of the Nazi era's few heroes.

So let me get this straight. A member of a religious sect that takes advantage of vulnerable people is unfit to portray a Nazi? That's the story you're going with?

What's that? Pay no attention to the 6 million Jews and 3-5 million other victims of Nazi extermination policies behind the curtain? You are the all-mighty, all-powerful critic, Oz?

Tell your story walking, Germany.

Nice try, though. I give you an A for effort.