Dubois served as special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury , 1944 – 45 ; general counsel of the War Refugee Board , 1944 ; member of the Allied Reparations Commission , Moscow , 1945 ; member of the U.S. delegation to the Potsdam Conference , 1945 ; and deputy chief counsel for War Crimes in charge of the I.G. Farben case , Nuremberg , Germany , 1947-48 DuBois wrote the famous '' Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews '' , which Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. used to convince President Franklin Roosevelt to establish the War Refugee Board in 1944 . Randolph Paul was also a principal sponsor of this report , the first contemporaneous Government paper attacking America 's policies during The Holocaust
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
Josiah E. DuBois Jr.