It wasn't only Germany, though; also France stopped shipments of masks to Sweden. And there were other cases in the big key member states.
https://www.svd.se/frankrike-beslagtar-masker-fran-svenskt-f...
Normally such freight would go via hubs in Germany, for instance; to avoid Germany confiscating masks, my country (Finland) hired planes to import masks directly from China, without using the hubs in Germany.
That’s how he explained the popularity of Silvio Berlusconi too - “of course the guy is a cheat and a fraud, but he is cheating for us now”.
I’m unsure if these views were in any way representative but I found them interesting.