 The principles of the Moscow Declarations were to be elaborated in the proceedings of the European Advisory Commission to specify that the Allies would undertake that both Nazism and German Militarism would be eradicated from Europe.In this respect the British War Cabinet came to agree with the American proposal that tribunals of justice should be established; with the consequence that all individual Nazi leaders would now be tried as criminals, and that all Nazi institutions, agencies and associations would be declared to be 'criminal organizations', proved membership of which would be grounds for judicial penalties.Since, in practice, by May 1945 such Nazi bodies were the only functioning institutions of German civil administration, the effect of this was to designate the entire civil apparatus of state power in Germany, and all employment within it, as 'criminal' activity in the service of the Nazi party; on the basis that "the Nazi state was structurally, in its genesis and throughout its existence, a vast criminal enterprise".