page_title: Denis Pritt
hierarchical_section_title: Denis Pritt
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Oberstes Gericht, Globke-Prozess, Pitt Zentralbild Brüggmann Stöhr-8.7.1963 Globke-Prozess eröffnet. Vor dem 1. Strafsenat des Obersten Gerichts der DDR begann am 8. Juli 1963 der von der internationalen Öffentlichkeit mit großer Spannung erwartete Prozess gegen den langjährigen leitenden Mitarbeiter des faschistischen Reichsinnenministeriums und derzeitigen Bonner Staatssekretär Dr. Hans Globke. UBz: Unter den Prozessbeobachtern, Kronanwalt D. N. Pritt (England).
context_page_description: Denis Nowell Pritt, QC was a British barrister and Labour Party politician. Born in Harlesden, Middlesex, he was educated at Winchester College and University of London.
  A member of the Labour Party from 1918, he was a defender of the Soviet Union. In 1932, as part of G. D. H. Cole's New Fabian Research Bureau's 'expert commission of enquiry', he visited the Soviet Union, and, according to Margaret Cole, "the eminent KC swallowed it all". Pritt was expelled from the Labour Party in March 1940 following his support of the Soviet invasion of Finland.
  Pritt was characterised by George Orwell as "perhaps the most effective pro-Soviet publicist in this country".
context_section_description: Denis Nowell Pritt, QC (22 September 1887 – 23 May 1972) was a British barrister and Labour Party politician. Born in Harlesden, Middlesex, he was educated at Winchester College and University of London.
  A member of the Labour Party from 1918, he was a defender of the Soviet Union. In 1932, as part of G. D. H. Cole's New Fabian Research Bureau's 'expert commission of enquiry', he visited the Soviet Union, and, according to Margaret Cole, "the eminent KC swallowed it all". Pritt was expelled from the Labour Party in March 1940 following his support of the Soviet invasion of Finland.
  Pritt was characterised by George Orwell as "perhaps the most effective pro-Soviet publicist in this country".
caption: Pritt acting as a foreign observer at the trial in absentia of Hans Globke, East Germany 1963
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