The book "When Money Dies" is very depressing because of similarities that can be drawn.

Quote from the book:
- "Even the most respectable of Austrian citizens now breaks the law, unless he is prepared to starve for the sake of obeying it."

Context: A lady was advised to exchange her Austrian kronen to Swiss francs to not get robbed by inflation but she refused because it was illegal.

Then the Austrian krone hyper-inflated and she got rekt.

The bank employee who previously told her to convert then said: "Well, wasn't I right? If you had bought Swiss francs when I suggested, you wouldn't have lost three-fourths of your fortune."