Denis Nowell Pritt

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Pritt as an observer at the trial of Hans Globke on July 8, 1963

Denis Nowell Pritt (born September 22, 1887 Harlesden ( Middlesex ), † May 23, 1972 Barn End, Basingstoke ( Hampshire )) was a British lawyer and politician. He had been a member of the Labor Party since 1918 . In 1927 he Attorney ( King's Counsel ). From 1935 to 1940 he was a member of parliament for the Labor Party.

Pritt was established in 1940 because of the endorsement of the invasion of the Red Army in Finland expelled from the party and was from 1940 to 1950 party-less member of parliament.

In 1933, Pritt was chairman of the “International Commission of Inquiry into the Reichstag Fire ”, the so-called “London Counter-Trial” to the Leipzig Reichstag Fire Trial .

Pritt received the International Stalin Peace Prize in 1954 and was made an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig in 1957 . In 1965 he was honored with the Star of Friendship of Nations in gold.

Fonts

  • Light on Moscow (1939)
  • Must the War Spread? (1940)
  • Federal Illusion (1940)
  • Choose your future (1940)
  • The Fall of the French Republic (1940)
  • USSR Our Ally (1941)
  • India Our Ally? (1946)
  • Revolt in Europe (1947)
  • A New World Grows (1947)
  • Star-Spangled Shadow (1947)
  • The State Department and the Cold War (1948)
  • Spies and Informers in the Witness-box (1958)
  • Liberty in Chains (1962)
  • The Labor Government, 1945–1951 (1963)
  • Neo-Nazis, the Danger of War (1966)
  • The autobiography of DN Pritt . Lawrence & Wishart, London 1965-1966
    • I. From right to left.
    • II. Brasshats and bureaucrats.
    • III. The defense accuses

Web links

Commons : Denis Nowell Pritt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denis Nowell Pritt on spartacus-educational.com
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 1965, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Pritt, Denis Nowell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlesden, Middlesex , England
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1972
Place of death Barn End, Basingstoke ( Hampshire )