 German) would be impossible for Jewish organisations, the Nazi government generally denied Jewish Germans their Germanness, "Israelitisch" (i.e.Israelite) were too ambiguous, the clearly anti-Semitic doctrine demanded the term Jüdisch (i.e.Jewish) and in December 1937 the Reich Ministry of the Interior objected the term "Gemeinde" which would be inapt, because the term also stands for a commune or municipality in German law (Gemeinde, however, means as much congregation, but there was no way to argue with the ministry), so the greater DIG renamed as "Jüdischer Religionsverband Hamburg" (JRH; i.e.