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11 Injured in Cruise Film Car Crash

Posted Aug 20, 07 2:52 PM CDT in World,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Eleven extras were injured on the Berlin set of Tom Cruise's latest film, "Valkyrie," when the side of a truck—decked out to look like a Nazi military transport—blew open as it took a corner. One man was seriously injured in the crash. Local authorities reported "no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved," the BBC says.

Cruise stars as Nazi Col.Claus von Stauffenberg, who led a 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. Based on the real events of "Operation Valkyrie," the film has been refused permission to shoot in the former headquarters where Stauffenberg was executed—-rumor has it due to German hostility to Scientology. The German government denied the claim.

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The set of Valkyrie, in which Tom Cruise portrays a would-be Hitler assassin.   (Getty Images (by Event))
Two German World War II warplanes of the Me109 type are seen in the skies over Loepten, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Berlin on Thursday, July 19, 2007, the day of the start of shooting of the...   (Associated Press)
An 2007 file photo originally provided by Germany's Babelsberg Studio shows Tom Cruise in the role of failed Hitler assassin Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg during filming of the movie "Valkyrie'...   (Associated Press)
This handout combo made available 19 July 2007 by Studio Babelsberg shows Cruise in profile in comparison to Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, whom Cruise will portray in Valkyrie.   (Getty Images)
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