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He's bearly public enemy number one, but police in Mainz, Germany, have put out a country-wide alert for this colourful looking character.

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Germany in Focus

• Inshredible
• Pedigree Chumps
• Record Breaker

Allan Hall's Germany

• Outrage at concentration camp entrance fee
• Weatherman freed in rape case
• Hitler greenlighted Hess flight to Britain

German Travel

• East German Las Vegas
• Hi-de-Hitler tourism
• German Lederhosen travel ban

Krazy Krauts

• Rapist Pimps Metal Penis
• Paw Excuse
• Shoedunit

Inshredible
A new computer scanner which can reconstruct shredded documents is being used to restore thousands of confidential dossiers destroyed by East Germany's feared Stasi secret police in the dying days of Communism.

Pedigree Chumps
Bungling dog-nappers who stole a prize-winning pug stud for breeding by posing as a dog walking service were caught when they took the pooch to a vet for a medical check up, say police in Frankfurt, Germany.

Record Breaker
Homeless Gunther Schmidt, 54, carried out 14 burglaries in one night and then handed himself into police after he'd been spared a prison sentence for breaking into a bakery in Meerane, Germany.

Publisher backs down on Mein Kampf plans
A British publisher has backtracked on plans to sell excerpts of Mein Kampf in Germany in the face of strong public pressure and a court ruling forbidding it’s publication.

Sex Machines
Sex meters taxing street walkers are to stay after raising 14,000 GBP in less than five months in Bonn, Germany.

Cannibalism Suspected In Berlin
Police in Berlin have arrested a suspected cannibal killer who murdered a city bank worker and cooked his head on the top of the stove.

Dumb And Dumber
A survey in Germany - two days before the world remembers the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews - shows over a fifth of all young Germans do not know the name of Auschwitz or what happened there.

Money Boiler
A wealthy banker who had a secret gay bondage fetish was found hacked to pieces after he was picked up at a sauna called the 'Boiler Room' by a crazed killer, say police in Berlin, Germany.

Pork Chop
Marlene Schmidt, 25, is fighting for her life after she was stabbed in the chest while buying meat at a butcher's shop in Iserlohn, Germany.

Calmer Chameleon
An absent minded guest started a panic at a hotel in Werne, Germany, when he left his pet chameleon behind after checking out of the room.