The State Security Office (ÁVH) was established in 1948 in Hungary to function as the secret police and "fist of the working class", protecting detention camps and organizing interrogations that involved torture. Methods included moral and physical brutality, sleep deprivation, no food or water, and electric shocks. In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, the ÁVH fought alongside Soviet troops but the anger of the people turned against them and some officers were lynched, leading to the breaking up of the secret police organization.

1. The Secret
Police
of Hungary

2. AFTER THE WORLD WAR II.

3. THE STATE SECURITY OFFICE
 The State Security Office (ÁVH) was set up
in September 1948
 Its keyword was the fight against
’reactionary elements’
 It functioned as the ‘fist of the working
class’

4. Its headquarters were in the house that had
been the 'House of Loyalty‘ earlier.
It is located at Andrássy Avenue 60 in Budapest at
present days

5. Later it moved to the tower block popularly
known as the 'White House'.

6. THE ÁVH
not only security police
the ‘Green ÁVO’(the Army
Border Guard)
military intelligence

7. WHAT DID ÁVH DO?
played an important part in preparing and
executing show trials.

8. ÁVH protected the detention
camps, the Gulags like Recsk.

9. The Hungarian Secret Police organized
interrogations

10. TYPES OF TORTURE
 moral and physical brutality
 interrogations during the night
the prisoners were not allowed to sleep or even
to sit down for days
no food, no drink for days

11. The ÁVH soldiers guarded the prison
of state criminals

12. THE PRISON
The cellars formed a labyrinth
The prisoners were separated from each other
Death row

13. THE PRISONERS’ LIFE
 Hunger
 Horrible cold
 Lack of sleep
 Hands and feet were bound
 Electricity shocks
 No clean underwear
 No shower

14. THE FINAL DAYS OF ÁVH
In 1956 ÁVH units and officers fought against the
rebels alongside the Soviet troops

15. The anger of people turned against the
officers and soldiers of ÁVO
They lynched the 'ÁVO' men

16. THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION OF
1956
 one of the main demands of the revolution
was the breaking up of ÁVO
 Imre Nagy’s government achieved this
 the Kádár government confirmed it
 the members continued to work for the
State Security Department of the police until
1961.

17. THE VICTIMS…