July 01, Bangalore , Sri Lanka Guadian: The RAW (Research and Analyses Wing) and IB (Intelligence Bureau) have helped the sleuths of the German Chancellor’s corps to nab an 88-year-old Nazi war criminal from the forests on the border of Karnataka and Goa. S.M. Bidari, ADGP, Intelligence, Karnataka, told the TNS today that the arrested fugitive had been flown to Berlin.
Johann Bach, a former Army officer of the Third Reich, was caught in the forests of Anmod inside the territory of Goa, Bidari said. He added that the area where he was caught was located close to Belgaum.
Police forces of both states were caught unawares by the incident as the entire operation was handled by Central agencies in tandem with German sleuths. Karnataka police obtained information about the incident only at a later stage.
Bach was arrested on Friday night after he tried to give a slip to Indian and German sleuths by getting off his taxi and walking into the forest. Bach was said to be a senior adjutant in a Nazi concentration camp in Berlin. He fled Germany after Hitler lost World War II and like many other ex-Nazis, settled in Argentina. He also lived in Canada and Bulgaria before settling down in Goa sometime back.
Reports quoting a press release issued by Perus Narkp, intelligence wing of the Berlin-based German Chancellor’s Corps, said Bach had been involved in the killing of nearly 12,000 Jews at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in Berlin under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Bach was identified as an absconding SS (Schutzstaffel) Colonel. He was a senior adjutant at the concentration camp, it was stated.
Bach, who had been on the run for the last 50 years, had been under surveillance after people involved in the search for listed Nazi war criminals traced his location to Bardez in Goa. Efforts to nab the war criminal were rewarded recently when he gave newspaper advertisements in Goa for selling an antique piano. The piano was said to be similar to one reported missing from a Berlin museum located near the concentration camp. The German sleuths knew that the camp was run by a young man named Bach, who was never caught.
Berlin also had information that an old German had bragged about overseeing the genocide of Jews to an Israeli tourist couple in Goa during a rave party a few months ago. The former Nazi had mistaken the couple to be Americans.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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