How did Germany suffer in 1919?

Answer 1

They had to pay a lot or reparations money and give away a lot of productive land to other nations, also they were not allowed a proper army anymore.

Answer 2

The origins of the 2nd world war can be found in Germany in 1919. There was a widespread feeling amongst demobbed soldiers that they were not defeated but ‘stabbed in the back’ by forces within Germany, notably the Kiel mutiny and Strikes that erupted in Germany at the end of the war.
The Versailles treaty was particularly punitive, and Germany was expected to pay reparations despite its economy being ruined. Inflation in the post war years was phenomenal, its no exaggeration that people would need a wheel barrow to carry money to buy a loaf of bread. At the bottom I have linked to a picture of a woman using money to light a fire because the wood was more expensive than the money she was burning.
With rampant unemployment, catastrophic inflation, and an angry demobbed army that was being recruited into private armies called friekorps it was struggle for most Germans to survive each day.

Answer 3

The Germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versaiiles that caused Germany to give up significant amounts of territory to create the nations of Poland and Czechoslovakia. Suddenly many Germans found themselves an outcast minority in a new country.
The treaty reduced the size of the German army to a maximum of 100,000 men meanwhile Polish and Czech insurgents attempted to seize more territoy and this lead to fighting in eastern and south eastern Germany. This forced the German government to rely on paramilitary private armies.

The Germans were forced to admit to starting the war and agree to massive reparations to France and Belgium among others. This would cripple the German economy from 1919 till 1923. Later the Dawes plan with loans from the United States helped soften the worst effects but this was negated by the stockmarket crash of 1929.

A further dictate of the treaty required that German war grave markers in France and Belgium be painted black.

Answer 4

I think the answer to this lies with the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I and set out certain terms that Germany had to agree to, in order to sustain peace.

"Terms imposed by the treaty on Germany included partitioning a certain amount of its own territory to a number of surrounding countries, being stripped of all of its overseas colonies, particularly those in Africa, and its ability to make war again was limited by restrictions on the size of its military. Because Germany was not allowed to take part in the negotiations, the German government issued a protest to what it considered to be unfair demands, and soon afterwards withdrew from the proceedings. On June 20 a new government under chancellor Gustav Bauer was installed in Germany after Philipp Scheidemann resigned. Germany finally agreed to the conditions with 237 vs. 138 votes on June 23.

On June 28, 1919[1]the new German foreign minister Hermann Müller and the minister of transport Johannes Bell agreed to sign the treaty, and it was ratified by the League of Nations on January 10, 1920. In Germany, the treaty caused shock and humiliation that contributed to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933, particularly because many Germans did not believe that they should accept the sole responsibility of Imperial Germany and its allies for starting the war."

Answer 5

Well, public spirits were low on account of losing WW1. Also, reparations had to be paid to the Allied Countries. As well as that, they had to cede land to other countries, ie Austria and the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. Unemployment also rose as they were prohibited under peace terms from having a large army, navy or air force.

Answer 6

they werent allowed to be united with austria hungary anymore and they had to join the leauge of nations.Also the city of Danzig became a free state. Plus what everyone else said about no army and reparations.

But as well as a limited army (10,000 men) they had artillery weapons, guns, tanks and ammunitions taken away from them.

Answer 7

chaos, diffident political fractions that fought against each other openly on the streets , a lack of food , the economy that was reduced to ruins so no work and there where some parts of Germany that where occupied by the allied troops ( Ruhr )

Answer 8

Not too much they lost some of their Empire and sort of carried on as they did before the war.

Answer 9

badly