State Protection Authority

During the 1950s he was several times arrested and tortured by the State Protection Authority.

Miklós Bauer, a member of the State Protection Authority also participated in Ries' torture.

At that time the Police Department was effectively a branch of ÁVH (the State Protection Authority).

After the Word War II, the communist State Protection Authority maintained concentration camps and committed mass genocides.

State Protection Authority, the Hungarian Secret Police (Államvédelmi Hatóság)

For six years, the cave continued its religious functions, but in 1951, the State Protection Authority raided the chapel as part of increasing action against the Catholic Church.

Between 1945 and 1952 he was the absolute leader of the State Protection Authority (Államvédelmi Hatóság) which responsible for much cruelty, brutality and many political purges.

His parents were Miklós Bauer (1921-2008), jurist and infamous interrogation officer of the State Protection Authority (ÁVH) and Judit Schönberg, a functionary.

She was accused of spying when leaving Hungary, arrested by the State Protection Authority (AVH) and detained in solitary confinement without trial or a prisoner identification number for seven years.

Péter's career rose quickly then: he became leader of the Hungarian State Police State Protection Department (ÁVO) then the State Protection Authority (ÁVH).