German school’s day of tragedy

Police officers walk past the Albertville Realschule secondary school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart, Germany.  (Sascha Schuermann / AFP)

Students peer through windows inside the high school in Winnenden.  (Marijan Murat / EPA)

Students inside the Albertville school in Winnenden, southern Germany, hold a book whose title translates roughly to “Love Letters to a Dead One.”  (Michael Latz / AFP)

An armed policeman stands watch outside the Albertville school in Winnenden, Germany, near Stuttgart.  (Sascha Baumann / EPA)

Police officers close streets in Koengen, Germany, where the alleged gunman in a school shooting rampage was killed.  (Boris Roessler / EPA)

Police officers stand in front of the home of the alleged gunman in Leutenbach, southern Germany. The suspect killed more than a dozen people at a high school in Winnenden.  (Torsten Silz / AFP / Getty Images)