Oberlaender, F.A. (1990): Zwischen den Stühlen. Zur Problematik katholischer Deutscher jüdischer Herkunft, dargestellt am Fallbeispiel des Pfarrer Fuchs, in: Bios - Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung und Oral History, 3: 189-223

Abstract

The article deals with the coping patterns developed by Catholics of Jewish origin who were adults in 1933, after being exposed to discrimination through the so-called "Nuremberg Laws." The main focus of the study is the question of how these people viewed their own religion, Judaism or their German nationality, and how these views might have been changed as a result of these experiences.

The article is based on narrative interviews conducted with "non-Aryan" Catholics of Jewish origin, and is centered specifically around the analysis of a biographical interview which was conducted with a Catholic priest who belongs to this group. The recounting of his life-story is supplemented by secondary sources which illuminate his social environment. The article concludes with the development of a structural hypothesis on the distinctions between patterns specific to the case of Father Fuchs and those which are characteristic of the group.

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