Final Years
After the Second World War, Ledwinka was accused of collaboration with the German occupation forces and jailed for five years in Czechoslovakia. After his release in 1951, he refused to work for Tatra, and retired to Munich, Germany where he died in 1967. In 1992, after the fall of Communism, Hans Ledwinka was posthumously fully rehabilitated by the Czech authorities.
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