What happened to germany's economy after ww1?

By 1914 Germany had become Europe’s most powerful economic and military power, and was second only to the United States in the world. Four long, terrible years of warfare meant that, by 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins.

the noble might have thought that the system was far because they had lot of things and riches and the serf would have thought that the feudal system was un fair because of the way they were treated.