Describe at least one specific reason why germany was in bad shape between the end of world war i and 1933

Germany lost Lorraine and Alsace and moreover had to pay exceptionally high reparations. Moreover Germany lost its colonies. Its imperial dream disappeared. Germans felt humiliated. In 1929 economic crisis made all that even worse.

Explanation: psychologically speaking inflation (imperial ambitions and Great War, 1914-1918) was followed by deflation (reparations, lost provinces, lost colonies, economic crises). All that was fault of German elites.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.