Pentimalli and Del Tetto were later arrested and put under trial for collaborationism and dereliction of duty for their failure to defend Naples. They were acquitted of the accusation of collaborationism, but sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for "abandonment of command" on 24 December 1944; the High Court of Justice, while admitting "the overwhelming superiority of the German forces", stated that defenders could have done "something more and better". The sentence was overturned by the Court of Cassation on 27 December 1946, stating that "the basic elements that guarantee the proper conduct of a trial" had not been observed by the High Court. Pentimalli was thus released and reinstated into his rank, while Del Tetto had died in prison in April 1945.Paolo Pavolini, 1943, la caduta del fascismo, p. 133
