Also, be aware of how pump & dump financial schemes funded WW2 & the Holocaust.
Deliberate devaluation of currency has a goal.
JP Morgan & Chase were only a few players in laundering the assets of Jews & the conquered nations to fund Hitler.

Chase and Morgan Sued Over Jewish Assets (Published 1998)
Class-action suit filed in Federal court on behalf of Jewish citizens of France, Israel and other nations who survived Nazi occupation of France or are relatives of victims charges that Chase Manhatttan and J P Morgan and seven French banks wrongfully seized bank accounts of Jewish customers during occupation and failed to return them after war; Chase says it is already in talks with World Jewish Congress on payments to former customers of Chase Bank of Paris whose accounts were frozen and later seized by Vichy French or Nazis (M)
(www.nytimes.com)
Swiss, UK, & Swedish banks too.

Chase Agrees to Plan for Holocaust Claim
Chase Manhattan Corp. and two U.S.

Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
Same as then, axis forces invaded weaker nations first, Manchuria, Ethiopia, Austria, Czechoslovakia.