BBC News is reporting that the German government has reversed a decision to ban Tom Cruise’s new movie from filming at a key World War II memorial site. Named after the coded, secret plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, director Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie stars Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who was put to death for plotting to kill the German leader in 1944. A previous request to film at the site of his execution was initially rejected, but defense ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said the change of heart came after officials were convinced the film would portray post-war Germany in a good light, and underline the fact that “barbarism did not win, but rather a democratic Germany finally arose.”