 Post-war legal debate also challenged the powers assumed by the Allies in Articles 11 and 13 to effect radical change to the civic, legal and economic structures of Germany, in direct conflict with the provisions of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 on the powers and responsibilities constraining military occupation in wartime.The Allies maintained that these conventions could not, and did not, apply in the circumstances of the occupation of Germany; as the complete and lasting elimination of Nazism and its crimes against humanity, and German militarism in general, were their major wartime objectives.Indeed, in October 1944 General Eisenhower, in his 'Proclamation number 1' concerning the intended Allied Occupation of Germany, had promised the total obliteration of Nazism and Militarism, the suspension of the German legal system, and the assumption by the Allies of supreme executive, legislative and judicial power.