How did Germany's economy get so bad?

Answer 1

Because the bombings that the Americans and British had completed flattened anything that might have been useful to the Nazis. This included their sources of income; things like steel plants, which produced tanks and weapons, and shoe factories that were converted to create anti-tank weapons.

And, Adolf Hitler poured a lot of German money into the war effort, and he lost anyway. He killed himself and left the German people penniless and scattered.

Answer 2

first of all the Germans were in huge debt from WWI. Their industries were fully dependent on war during WWI. So the economy had nothing to fall back on if they weren't in war. During to 20's the Germans copied the USA and many other post WWI countries. They greatly increased the money supply. This at first helped the Germans do two things pay back debts and keep their economy afloat, but since the inflation did not really exist back then the way it does now it didn't really affect them until it caught up to them with the great depression. Germany crashed and they crashed the hardest. Since they had produced the most money theirs was worth the least. This inflation kills the German economy until Hitler starts it back up again with war.

Btw: Its not really called inflation because inflation is when the cost of things is going up. This is not really true. the truth is that because governments around the world produce more and more money each year each note, dollar, yen, euro loses value so it takes more of them to buy something everyyear