Problems facing Germany at the end of the war

• Food shortages were a problem facing the German people at the end of WW1 and therefore many people were starving
• Germans were also still suffering from fuel shortages at the end of the war
• Those that signed the peace armistice in 1918 were forever known as the November criminals. These men took power in 1919 and were never trusted because of this
• The unreasonable demands of the Treaty of Versailles placed upon the German people were also a problem facing Germany at the end of the war
• Many people in Germany had been affected by the Spanish flu epidemic in 1919 and this epidemic killed more than the war itself
• When the Kaiser abdicated in 1918 no one was in place to take power and this created a power vacuum
• Political groups like the communist Spartacus's tried to take power by force in 1919 proving that people were unhappy with the government
• It was very difficult to find work for many after the war and therefore there was high unemployment
• The German economy was in a bad way as the war had cost them so much