Marcel Gleffe was the first to race to the idyllic island of Utoeya, where more than 500 young people were attending a summer camp organised by AUF, the youth wing of the ruling Labour Party, as gunman Anders Behring Breivik opened fire. 
 
 Mr Gleffe, who was staying on a holiday campsite on the mainland, raced to his boat and took to the water immediately after hearing the shots and seeing plumes of smoke on the horizon. 
 
 As the names of some of the young victims began to emerge, he told how he had bravely rescued scores of teenagers who fled for their lives as Breivik's bullets rained down. 
 
 "I just did it on instinct," he said. "You don't get scared in a situation like that, you just do what it takes. I know the difference between fireworks and gunfire. I knew what it was about, and that it wasn't just nonsense. 
 
 "Cooperation with the police and rescue crews afterwards was very good, but it all came too late. The first time I was out I was all alone." 
 
 Mr Gleffe and his family were drinking coffee outside their caravan and discussing the Oslo bombing when they began to hear shots from Utoeya between 5pm and 6pm on Friday. 
 
 "I recognised the sound of the automatic weapon straight away," he said. 
 
 "Then I saw two youths who swam away from the island. Then smoke grenades came and several bursts from the automatic weapon. I saw through the binoculars that there were more people in the water." 
 
 Mr Gleffe, who lives in Ski, south of Oslo, took the keys to his boat and raced down to the water. 
 
 He threw life jackets out to the young people as they shouted: "Are you police, are you police?". Some told him that the gunman was a police officer as others yelled "terrorist, terrorist, terrorist!". 
 
 He plucked as many as he could from the water, steering the boat close to the shore of the island and using his binoculars to search for the gunman. 
 
 "I took between four and five trips. After that the police asked me to stop," he told the local Dagbladet newspaper. 
 
 "The youths were good. They supported each other and were organised, and said who needed first aid and who had to be taken into the boat first. 'You must take him, you must take him', they said." 
 
 "They were happy to get help, but they were unsure whom they could trust." 
 
 Among those who lost their lives during Breivik's rampage was Tore Eikeland, 21, president of the Hordaland branch of the AUF, whom Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg described as "one of our most talented youth politicians". 
 
 "Now he is dead. Gone forever. It is incomprehensible," he told mourners at a special memorial service at Oslo's cathedral. 
 
 Erik Dale, a friend and colleague in Norwegian youth politics wrote online: "It is much too soon for you to go, Tore. A great friend with a great heart. A heart that beats for everyone. 
 
 "And a political talent we all envy you. Norway's next Prime Minister, remember? It is too soon to lose you. We miss you." 
 
 Mr Dale also wrote about another friend, Tarald Mjelde, 18, who was missing presumed dead last night. 
 
 "We still need you, Tarald.," he said. "The little big boy with an enthusiasm that infects everyone around you. All the people who wish they had your energy. Your eagerness. If you hadn't been such a great little politician, I am sure you could have been an athlete. 
 
 "You love your football, even if you support the wrong team. How did you end up with Chelsea anyways? Please come home safe so you can tell me. We need you." 
 
 As the death toll from the island climbed to 86, the names of the missing began to filter out. AMong them was Simon Saeboe, 19, who posed with the Prime Minister in 2009. 
 
 Hanne Kristine Fridtun, 20, was last heard from at 6pm on Friday as she swam out into the water with several others. 
 
 "We are twenty people hiding at the water's edge. We are talking quietly so we are not heard," she told NRK, the state broadcaster on the phone. 
 
 Torjus Blattmann, 17, Syvert Knudsen, 17, Marianne Sandvik, 16 and Jamil Rafal Yasin, 20, were also all still missing. 
 
 Friends posted heartfelt messages on Facebook and more than one million joined a tribute page illustrated by a single candle. 
 
 One wrote on Simon Saeboe's page: "This is so unfair and unreal you will always be remembered and never be forgotten" while another added: "I am so glad I had a chance to know you." ||||| By Anna Reimann and Gerald Traufetter in Utvika, Norway 
 
 Marcel Gleffe and his family had been hoping for a week of relaxation at a Norwegian campground. But when gunfire started on an island across the water, he and several others jumped into their boats and began rescuing distraught teenagers swimming for their lives. "It goes without saying," he says. 
 
 The man who had suddenly become a hero pours himself a beer and lights a cigarette. He only managed one or two hours of sleep the night before and he looks tired. It is the day after the massacre at the Norwegian youth camp on Utøya Island. The suspected perpetrator, Anders Behring B. cold-bloodedly shot down 85 people on the previous day -- but dozens were able to flee by jumping into the water and swimming towards the mainland. 
 
 It is 24 hours since Marcel Gleffe became a key figure in pulling many of these young camp goers out of the water. Thirty-two years old, Gleffe is a roofer from Germany who has worked in Norway for the past two-and-a-half years. Currently, he is vacationing at a campground in Utvika together with his parents Walter and Heidrun. The campground is directly across from the island where the massacre took place. 
 
 He takes a deep drag on his cigarette and begins to tell his story. It was a chilly late afternoon on Friday and the Gleffe family had just sat down for coffee at the table in front of their RV. They were talking about the attack that had just taken place in Oslo, about the bomb and the several people it had killed. A neighbor at the campground had told them of the shocking attack. 
 
 Suddenly, they heard a hollow bang. First just one or two, "but then it was an entire salvo," says Heidrun, 53. They saw dark smoke rise up from the island. "I said to my husband, 'come on, lets go down to the jetty, we have to see what happened." Maybe it was some fireworks, they thought, or some sort of exercise. 
 
 Bobbing in the Water 
 
 The jetty is just 200 meters from where their RV was parked. Several boats are tied up there and the island is just 600 meters across the water. It's easy to see the rocks on the island's shore and the ferry bobbing in the water. 
 
 When they arrived at the jetty, the Gleffes could see a man fishing a girl out of the water, she must have been 16 or 17 years old, and she was clad only in her underwear. Immediately behind her was another girl, screaming as she swam. "She was yelling 'help, help,' she screamed 'shooting!' and that we should call the police, Heidrun says. 
 
 It was the moment when the Gleffes realized that something terrible must have happened on the island. "We saw several heads bobbing in the water," Heidrun says. 
 
 The heads they saw were several teenagers who had jumped into the water in an attempt to escape. By the time the Gleffes saw them, dozens had likely already been killed by the gunman rampaging across Utøya. 
 
 The family immediately jumped into action, as if by remote control, not wanting to lose a second. Heidrun wrapped the girl who had reached the shore into a blanket and brought her to their RV. She was freezing and in shock. 
 
 Helping Each Other 
 
 "In such a situation, you don't think at all," her son Marcel says. He took off and grabbed the key for the small red boat that they had rented for the week and quickly got the motor running. "I immediately suspected that there was a connection to the attack in Oslo," he says. 
 
 The teenagers who were swimming in the water called out: "Don't come closer! Don't come closer." 
 
 But Marcel did. "I just acted," he says. He saw more and more people jumping into the water from the rocks on the shore and looked through a telescope at the island. Suddenly, he saw the attacker, squatting on a rock with his weapon raised. Eyewitnesses later said that he also shot at those who had already managed to jump into the water. 
 
 "There were people swimming everywhere in the water," Marcel says. "I threw them lifejackets and pulled those into the boat who were having the most trouble. Everyone was screaming, but they were also helping each other." They screamed, they cried, but they also hugged each other for courage. "It was unbelievable to see how strong they were," Marcel says. 
 
 The 32-year-old took his boat out into the water again and again, collecting more people and bringing them back to the jetty. There, additional helpers were waiting, and several other campers with their boats were also pulling teenagers out of the water. Marcel guesses that he alone was able to bring about 20 of them to the shore, he doesn't know exactly how many anymore. 
 
 'Goes Without Saying' 
 
 Some of the teenagers seemed not to want to be saved by the campers from the other shore. They screamed "don't come too close" or "do you want to kill us?" The reason only came to light the next day. "The attacker was so cynical that he called out to the young people and promised that he would save them," a Norwegian man, who had likewise pulled people out of the water, says. 
 
 Psychologists who arrived at the campground after the massacre ended expressed amazement at how well organized the campers were. When the shooting started, many of them put their small children in their cars so that they wouldn't realize what was going on. One man drove many of the freezing teenagers to the campground office to warm up. 
 
 In total, the campers at Utvika managed to pull 150 people out of the water. "Still, many of them feel guilty," says psychiatrist Kirsti Oscarson. "They think only of the people they had to leave behind because they didn't fit in the boat and not about the ones whose lives they saved." Her job now is to reassure them that their thoughts in such a situation are completely normal, Oscarson says. 
 
 Psychologists are now providing assistance for those in need at the camping ground. They say that about a third of them are likely going to have difficulties processing their experiences. 
 
 Marcel Gleffe says that "yesterday, I was okay. But today I feel terrible, just terrible." But, he adds, he couldn't have done anything but help. "What we did simply goes without saying."
– German Marcel Gleffe and his family were relaxing Friday afternoon at a campground along the shores of Norway's Lake Tyrifjorden, talking about the bombing in Oslo, when he heard shots ring out—first one or two, then "an entire salvo." He ran to the jetty and saw a girl swimming, calling for help and yelling that there was a shooting happening at Utoya Island, about 600 meters away. So Marcel grabbed the keys to his rental boat and took off to help all the people he could, reports Der Spiegel. "In such a situation, you don't think at all," he says. Marcel took the boat out four or five times, throwing lifejackets to as many people as he could, fishing out those who needed the most help. Many were wary, screaming "don't come too close" or "do you want to kill us?" He says he managed to bring about 20 to shore (the Telegraph reports he saved up to 30). All told, the various campers at the site pulled about 150 people from the water. But despite helping so many, for campers like Gleffe, the trauma lingers. "Yesterday, I was okay. But today I feel terrible, just terrible," he said.