A depression is a longer and deeper recession.
Recessionary environments have experienced stagflation.
Prices do not necessarily go down in a depression and price hikes can actually characterize one.
Price controls and rationing to avoid inflation took place during WWII
The price controls and rationing were not to avoid inflation but to reallocate resources to the war effort by government fiat.
In theory, your ration card entitled you to a certain amount of beef, but if you were willing to pay up (at inflated prices) you could always find some more.
For someone trying to tell the thread author he is short on facts, you seem to be painfully unaware of them.
Economics are more complex than either the author or you represent them to be.
"Economics are more complex than either the author or you represent them to be"
Yes, economics can be complex and also very simple at the same time.
But the facts are other than you claim them to be. Your complete ignorance of the link between a depression and WWII and the lack of inflation is staggering.