GI OFFERS $20,000 REWARD
On 5 March 1945, Roatta escaped from the Virgilio Army Hospital in Rome.[37] An award of one million lire ($10,000) was offered for his capture.[38] The following day a “mild mass meeting” took place at the Italian royal palace in protest of his escape and escalated into a riot ending with one person dead.[39] On 4 April Sergeant Stuart W. Mathes put up a personal reward of $20,000 for Roatta’s capture.[40]
Beginning in 1964, he wrote a number of books that were published and he lived in Rome until his death on 7 January 1968.[41][42]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Roatta
The trial for war crimes and the failure to defend Rome
On 16 November 1944 he was arrested during the investigation of the Commission of Inquiry for non-defense of Rome, then in 1945 he was sued by ‘High Commissioner for the punishment of crimes fascists for the murder of the Rosselli brothers.
On March 4, 1945, on the eve of the day of the filing of the findings of the inquiry committee, executed by ‘military hospital at the Liceo Virgilio, probably thanks to the complicity of the British Secret Service and General Thaddeus Orlando, commanding general of’ weapon and former subordinate of Roat in Croatia, reached before the Vatican and then, with his wife, Spain, where he was protected by the government of Francisco Franco. Was the immediate reaction of the Left and the demonstrations, during which he died, in circumstances not specified, the upholsterer Peter Gualdani. Events powered by controversy positions socialists and shareholders (Saragat wrote that “his silence was golden for many people”) who accused environments army to protect the fascists. The next day Orlando was dismissed.
The week after the escape, he was sentenced to ‘life imprisonment for the findings about the lack of defense of Rome, but the committee also attributed to him responsibility regarding the defeat of September 8 as a whole. He was able to take advantage of the ‘amnesty of 1946 and the final report in 1953. At the end of the judicial process was acquitted and the judgment set aside in 1948.
He returned from Spain in 1966 and died in Rome in 1968. He wrote a famous memorial defensive: Jackals him to the SIM (Rome 1955).
http://www.desertwar.net/mario-roatta.html