Luftwaffe (supposedly) forbade their young "Prunes" to drive.
I don't think there was anything wrong with the Skodas. Faily straightfoward construction and handling. It was the Tatra that decimated the German High Command in the East. Lightweight constuction with a 3.0 litre air-coolled in the rear. We can all remember what a VW was like as it jacked up its rear end and went into mega-oversteer; think what Tatra could do.
Rommel had a cabriolet as his staff car in Africa. I have only ever seen one; in Rhodesia in the fifties.
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