{"id":169,"date":"2007-09-04T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-09-04T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:08:24","slug":"cruising-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/cruising-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Cruising&quot; in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks provided some interesting experiences in Berlin, both for &quot;normal&quot; spectators and celebrity hawks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Berlin is normally not decked out in Nazi flags like it was some 65 years ago. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/cruise.jpg\" title=\"Tom Cruise in Germany\" alt=\"Tom Cruise in Germany\" height=\"221\" width=\"275\" \/> However, on a recent weekend a street in the middle of Berlin was draped with Nazi flags and closed to normal traffic. The reason? It had become a set for Tom Cruise&#8217;s latest film about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who placed a bomb in Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Prussian military headquarters in July 1944 in a failed attempt to assassinate the German dictator. Old German military trucks roared up and down the street as cameras whirred and curious spectators at the traffic barriers tried to get a decent shot. Cruise is said to have a remarkable similarity in appearance to Graf Stauffenberg, at least in a side view. He is said to have studied 8 months for the role in the film. Off the set Cruise makes headlines in Berlin wherever he goes, like attending a memorial service for German actor Ulrich M&uuml;he, who died on July 22nd of cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks provided some interesting experiences in Berlin, both for &quot;normal&quot; spectators and celebrity hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}