From “Patriot” to “Country Traitor”. The Espionage Accusation Brought to Monk Árkád Pásztory. Part I: The Reports of Detective Ede Sperling

Abstract

Abstract: This study is an attempt for clarifying a less known episode in the life of the Brazilian Monk Árkád Pásztory, i.e. the motives and circumstances under which he became a suspect of country treason during the First World War. Thus, in this article we present a first part of a long events series of the trial whose documents have been kept in Budapest, at the National Archives of Hungary.