Why was germany in such a terrible economic situation?

If you thought that the depression in America was bad, think again. The depression that Germany had after WWI was a super depression. After the devastating defeat in WWI, and the treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to pay incredibly large reparations to Britain and France.

they were being crushed u the victors.

Explanation:

In order to pay back the debts, they tried to make more money which led to severe inflation and so France forced the Germany workers to work for them yt they did passive resistance (refused to work) which led to their poor economic situation after the world war 2.