Based on Italian and foreign archival sources, this study shows how Italy's active assistance to its industrial apparatus soon included the newly born aircraft industry, including the Caproni Group. However, after World War II the Group went bankrupt along with most aircraft manufacturers. The suspension of aircraft development, the preference for importing allied (American and British) aircraft for civil airlines, and the denial of international assistance were the ensuing political and economic costs of defeat. In the end, Italy nationalized what was left of its aviation firms. Also, nationalization was consistent with its industrial history and represented the only way to help this sector survive.

根据意大利和外国档案资料，这项研究表明意大利对其工业设备的积极援助很快就包括了新兴的飞机工业，包括卡普罗尼集团。然而，二战后，该集团与大多数飞机制造商一起破产。飞机开发的暂停、民用航空公司倾向于进口盟军（美国和英国）飞机以及拒绝国际援助是失败的随之而来的政治和经济代价。最后，意大利将其剩余的航空公司收归国有。此外，国有化与其工业历史相一致，是帮助该部门生存的唯一途径。