 In a June 2007 article, the Italian weekly "L'Espresso" defined Trifa as "a guest in Germany, protected by the Nazis".After Trifa was freed, he was briefly secretary to Metropolitan bishop Visarion Puiu in Vienna and then Paris, and, following the end of World War II, he was a professor of ancient history in Italy, at a Roman Catholic college.He moved to the United States on July 17, 1950, using the "Displaced Persons Immigration Law".