The teenage gunman who murdered nine people before taking his own life in Munich in July had the chance to kill several more people but chose not to, police have revealed.
According to research by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the Munich gunman was proud to have been born on the same day as Hitler and hated Turks and Arabs.
In the chaos after the Munich mall shooting, city residents spontaneously offered shelter to strangers - a move that Chancellor Angela Merkel said showed that Germany's strength lies in its values.
According to initial investigations by Munich police, the young man who went on a shooting rampage in Munich on Friday evening was a lone gunman without motive, not a terrorist.
Nine people are dead after "at least one person" went on a shooting spree in a Munich shopping centre on Friday evening. An attacker is believed to be among the dead.
The 19-year-old German man who took over a dozen people hostage in a cinema in western Germany on Thursday was carrying replica weapons, prosecutors have confirmed.
UPDATE: Bavarian officials said on Friday afternoon that they could confirm two people were shot by a gunman in the Ansbach district of Middle Franconia (northern Bavaria) in what appears to have been a random rampage.