European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 7, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 s4s photos by Joe Mao other the Oft Cial residence of the . Commander in Berlin is also he Birthplace of Hans Guenther Kock. Retiring from work with the . Army Kock right plans to stay in Berlin. Is heart never sprays far from his Home Berliner is retiring after 38 years working for . Army by Joe Mapother Bremer Harco Bureau Berlin a Large imposing House on Pacol Luallee is the official residence of the . Commander in Berlin but for Hans gun Thor Kock it is much More. Kock was born in the House 65 years ago. After stints with Rommel s afrika Korp and in Row Camps he returned to the House to work for the americans occupy ing it. The genial Man retired last week As the chief of the official residences Branch . Come Berlin. Although he has held a variety of jobs from Driver to Butler to managing the military transient billed Kock has never strayed far from the Rouin above the garage where he came into the world in 1920. World War ii was the exception. When he joined the German army Kock left the House at no. 14-16 Pacel liable where Iris parents lived and worked and ended a p rising career inspecting air plane and automobile engines for Mercedes. As he wryly put it in 1942 the army was knocking on my door and they asked me to be a  he soon was steering a tank across Northern Africa with Gen. Erwin Rommel s troops. Kock was wounded captured by the French sent to a British held Hospital and then turned Over to the americans. His next Stop Wai a pow Camp in Georgia. We had a Nice vacation trip on the is govern ment s Cost Kock said of the boat trip. It took 28 Days from Oran Algeria to Norfolk  his captors fretted Over the possibility of a German a boat attack he said. I was worried myself. I m not  a Good swimmer. Kock said life at fort Gordon ga., and Charleston s.c., was not unpleasant. His duties included planting Trees in downtown Charleston. Although the americans told Kock he was being sent Home in 1946, the boat made a wrong turn he said. Us of that does t look like Germany he recalled of his reaction when the boat docked. That looks like  it was and life As a pow continued. It was not until March 1947 that Kock made it Back to Berlin As a trained tank Driver in a City where All the tanks were driven by soldiers from the other  the banker who had owned the impressive Pacilli Allocc House died in 1943, and duty on the russian fro had nearly Cost the hand of the banker s oldest son. The House had been requisitioned for use by the americans. Most other houses were unfit for use by anyone. Kock showed up at the Doorstep of the Pacelli Allce House and got a Job driving a Buick for the six Ameri cans living there. It really looked hopeless Kock said of postwar Ber Lin. He drove the Buick Down lanes cleared through acres of rubble. The economic life of the cily was at a near standstill. Kock said he went to work for the americans because there was no Choice especially Here in  i came Home and there was no engine work because we had no cars or  thirty eight years later he reflected if i had a Choice to work Lor Mercedes or the . Army i would choose the  the russian blockade of land routes into Berlin in 1948 came when Kock was working As a Butler Driver for an american government official. His Job As Butler had Benefit. If there was a party and there were leftovers we would split the leftovers Kock said. And the leftovers were sometimes very Good. Especially if you were Hun  Kock remembers the planes buzzing overhead every three minutes in the continuous airborne Effort to Supply the Western sectors of Berlin. Down below in the Grunewald Forcel Section of the City people were furtively hiding among the i rfcs wait ing for the sound of an approaching plane to cover lie noise of their saws busily chopping illegal firewood he said. The mad sawing and hacking ceased with inc diminishing Roar of the plane and silence would Greet the Forest Ranger deep in contemplation As to How his forests were thinning out Kock said. Gen. Lucius d. Clay was a key figure in mounting the Berlin Airlift of 1948. Although Kock knew him by sight As the commander in chief for the . Zone of occupation in Germany he did not meet Clay until 13 years later when he began working for the general. Kock planned the official parties and supplied the six bedroom household of Clay s waterfront residence on the wants cd during the iwo years Clay served As Kennedy s representative after the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. While Clay was masterminding the Lank probe confrontations Between american and russian armoured units at checkpoint Charlie Rock s Job was to take care of Gen. Lucius Clay s daily problems at  if Clay said let s have breakfast at 7 is it was 7 15, not 7 25. General Clay was a very straightforward Man. He knew exactly what he wanted the High visibility provided by the Stark. Allied forces Border crossing at checkpoint Charlie seems to have been very much on Clay s mind when he arrived in Ber Lin Kock said. According to Kock the first thing Clay did was to drive Down to checkpoint Charlie and Lake a walking tour accompanied by his wife and unnoticed by anybody else. Kock plans to spend his retirement in Berlin and he May visit his Sisler in North Dakota. I Don l want to leave Here he said. I am confident that Berlin will remain a free  nazi tells Magazine Syria protected him for 30 years Munich up to Brunner declared to be the world s most wanted nazi Laid in an interview published wednesday thai he lived for 30 years under syrian Protection and aided syrian intelligence in a plot to bomb a jewish target. The West German a cwt Magazine Bulc. Which located and interviewed the 73-year-old aide to holocaust technician Adolf Eichmann in the syrian capful of Damascus said Brunner admitted he helped organize a 1961 plot to bomb a meeting Rotthe world jewish Congress in Vienna Austria. He said the attack was foiled by austrian of runner told the Magazine he assumed the false name of a colleague and wandered after the War around Germany. In 1954 he went to Egypt from Amsterdam nether lands and finally ended up in Damascus. He lived in the syrian capital under the name Georg Fischer and became syrian representative for a West German brewery and textile machinery company. But in 1960, he was arrested on suspicion of smuggling and was interviewed by a senior syrian secret policeman named by the Munich based Magazine Only As  Brunner said he told Lahan his real Iden Tity and what he had done in the War and there was an abrupt change of attitude. Lahan stood up Hook my hand and said Welcome to Syria. The enemies of our enemies jews Are our friends " Brunner told bundle. Brunner said he was freed and then began a close relationship with syrian intelligence in which he taught senior officers German and twice helped plan plots against what he called the worldwide jewish  in addition to the Vienna bombing plot he said he also hatched with the syrians a possible plan to free Eichmann from Captivity in Israel in the same year but the israeli Security surrounding his former chief was so Light that the attempt was never made. The jews moved him to an impregnable prison and so the plan had to be abandoned Brunner Saio. Eichmann head of the nazi machine charged with shipping european jews to the concentration and extermination Camps of Adolf Hitler s third Reich was Kidnap Ped in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1960 by israeli agents tried in Israel and executed in 1962. Brunner was hit lop aide. He a accused of organizing the transportation of More than 100,000 French slovakian austrian and greek jews to their deaths Between 1941 and 1945 crimes he told Bunte he does not regret. What happened to the jews in the East does t concern me said Brunner. He also complained because he received no postwar allowance. West Germany owes Roc a pension he Laid