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Date: 23 Mar 2006 17:22:01
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Obituary of Peter Manetti published today
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http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060323/NEWS/603230341/1052/OBITS
Obituary of Peter Manetti published today in the Santa Rosa Press
Democrat
OBITUARIES
Peter Manetti
Peter Manetti, a Guerneville artist and local chess master, was 66
when he died ch 10 of prostate cancer at a convalescent center in
Sebastopol.
While working as a landscaper, he also was an artist who often sold
his woodcarvings and sketches in San Francisco.
Having taken up chess at a young age, he played in California's first
international tournament in Lone Pine in 1972. He was an acclaimed
chess master who tutored many schoolchildren in the game and often
could be found in Sonoma County coffeehouses giving chess lessons.
He was born in Germany, and his father died in World War II. His
mother brought him to New York at age 12.
He served in the ine Corps and became fluent in several languages
through his international travels.
He attended art school in New York and came to California in the
mid-1960s in search of rural and alternative lifestyles. Still
searching for country atmosphere, he moved from Berkeley to the
Russian River area in the mid-1970s, according to his family.
Separated from his wife, Generosa Manetti of Santa Rosa, he raised
three daughters in the Guerneville and Pocket Canyon area.
"He was a great father who could love the Three Stooges, the works of
Dutch painter Vermeer, Hitchcock's movie 'Vertigo' and anything to do
with world history and share it all with his girls," said daughter
Barbara Schilling.
In addition to his former wife and daughter Barbara Schilling of Santa
Rosa, he is survived by his daughters Diana Manetti of Colorado and
Xhana Manetti of Sonoma County, and four grandchildren.
At his request, services for family and friends will be private.
- Bleys W. Rose
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Date: 25 Mar 2006 15:27:54
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Obituary of Peter Manetti published today
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Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, the court in closed session, at
least two thirds of the members present at the time the vote
was taken, concurring, sentences you to death by hanging at
such time and place as higher authority may direct.
Dachau, Germany
15 December 1945
I, Brigadier General John M. Lentz, President of the General
Military Court appointed by paragraph 3, Special Orders No.
304, Headquarters Third U.S. Army and Eastern Military
District, dated 2 November 1945, do hereby certify that the
foregoing documents attached hereto and in this order: (1)
Extract of orders appointing court, (2) Charge Sheet with
certificate of service, (3) Findings of the court on the
Charges, and sentence of the court, are true and correct copies of the
original documents used in the trial of the Dachau
Concentration Camp case.
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/imt/nca/ftp.py?imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3590-ps
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Date: 25 Mar 2006 20:25:10
From: \KUNTO\
Subject: Re: Obituary of Peter Manetti published today
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"Sam Sloan" < > Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, the court in closed session, at
least two thirds of the members present at the time the vote was taken,
concurring, sentences you to death by hanging at such time and place as
higher authority may direct.
>
So did you take a plane ride there to visit the empty court-room many years
later?
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Date: 25 Mar 2006 15:03:47
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Obituary of Peter Manetti published today
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On Thu, 23 2006 17:22:01 GMT, [email protected] (Sam Sloan)
wrote:
>http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060323/NEWS/603230341/1052/OBITS
>
>He was born in 1939 in Germany, and his father died in World War II. His
>mother brought him to New York at age 12.
I have been wondering why Peter Manetti changed his name from
Schilling to Manetti.
Could this be the reason?
Photograph from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo
Archives.
Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, a physician at the Dachau concentration
camp, defended himself in the docket at the Dachau trial. Schilling
was charged with infecting over one thousand prisoners with malaria in
his experiments at the camp, resulting in hundreds of deaths. He was
condemned to death and hanged.
In his appeal in English after cross examination, Schilling explained,
"I have worked out this great labor. It would be really a terrible
loss if I could not finish this work. I don't ask you as a court, I
ask you personally to do what you can; to do what you can to help me
that I may finish this report. I need only a table and a chair and a
typewriter. It would be an enormous help for science, for my
colleagues, and a good part to rehabilitate myself." His voice then
broke and he cried. (December 7, 1945)
Sam Sloan
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