PRESS NOTE

Perus Narkp, the intelligence wing of the Berlin based German Chancellor's Core, with the help of senior intelligence officials of the Government of India, have located and apprehended Johann Bach, an absconding high-ranking Waffen SS (Schutzstaffel) colonel in the Germany’s former Nazi party.

88-year-old Bach was posted as a senior adjutant at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in East Berlin and was responsible for the genocide of more than 12,000 Jews in World War II. More than any other offenders who have been prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials, which were set up to look into heinous war crimes during the World War II.

He had been absconding for more than 50 years after.

Bach was nabbed in the jungles of Khanapura on the border of Goa and Karnataka after a chase which started in the Bardesh region of Goa yesterday morning.

Bach has been apprehended and taken to a safe location in a joint top secret operation conducted by the Perus Narkp and intelligence officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

After the Perus Narkp received a tip off from its sources that Bach was in Calangute region of Goa, he was placed under observation for the last six months. According to Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp documents seized by the Allied forces after World War II, Bach was responsible for the exploitation and death of more than 12,000 Jews in his concentration camps. He has been absconding since the fall of the Third Reich.

Bach's acts were incidentally also glossed over in the Nuremberg Trials. The case against him was revived following reports in the Israeli media, which claimed that Bach had resurfaced in India.

The Perus Narkp followed the India lead with the help of its counterpart Intelligence agencies in India. The Perus Narkp then received a lead which informed about an old foreigner wanting to sell an antique, priceless 18^th century piano. A similar piano had been reported missing from an East Berlin museum (in close proximity of Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp) after the World War II.

The absconder had been hiding in Goa for the last few months under a fake name in Calangue. His preliminary interrogation has revealed that he has earlier stayed in Argentina, Bulgaria, Yemen, Canada and then in Goa, India.

Bach was born in Eisenach in 1920 to Ambrosius Bach and though a brilliant, eccentric musician rose high in the Nazi SS ranks as an adjutant of the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp, which was lesser known when compared to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Dulab Malak the chief of the external wing of the Perus Narkp will address the press in Goa on Sunday to inform the media about the top-secret operation along with a senior home ministry official of the Government of India on Sunday.

The venue will be informed soon.

The whereabouts of the accused Bach have however been kept a secret until the trials begin at the International Court of Justice in Hague.

You are requested to release this story today and give this successful joint operation by intelligence teams of both Germany and India wide publicity in the lead up to the press conference.

The press-kit, including the evidence of Bach's crimes, the documents pertaining to the offence, photographic evidence will be handed over to the members of the press during the press conference.

The exclusive media briefing which will be held in Goa will also be attended by news crew who will be specially flown in from Germany for the event.

Hamman Smit

Unterschrift

88-YEAR AGED JOHAN BACH (FILE FOTO TAKEN IN ARGENTINA)