In September 2007, when the Defence Ministry initially denied permission for filming at the Bendlerblock memorial, support for the film came in from German newspaper columnists and filmmakers, including director Wolfgang Petersen and Frank Schirrmacher, journalist and co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
U rujnu 2007., kad je Ministarstvo obrane prvotno odbilo dopuštenje za snimanje u Bendlerblocku, podrška filmu došla je od njemačkih novinskih kolumnista i filmaša, uključujući redatelja Wolfganga Petersena i Franka Schirrmachera, novinara i suizdavača Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitunga.