Tom Cruise plays Nazi Klaus Schenck in an upcoming movie

Cruise compared to Goebbels

Superstar Tom Cruise plays Nazi Klaus Schenck in an upcoming movie, but historian Guido Knopp thinks he resembles Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.Speaking to a German newspaper, Knopp said that Cruise's taped address talking about Scientology was similar to the speech Goebbels gave in 1943 in which he asked the audience "Do you want total war?"

Knoop said: "It may be the case that Cruise's delivery style is not uncommon in certain religious movements in the US. But for Germans with an interest in history, that scene where he asks whether the Scientologists should 'clean up' the world and everyone shouts 'yes' is inevitably reminiscent of Goebbels' notorious speech," he commented