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Let's compare it to the situations Ukrainians found themselves in.
They needed to flee the country, but there was a chance border guards would steal their money if they found them carrying a lot. The same would happen if they were found carrying a bag of gold.
If they happened to enter the EU, they wouldn't be able to fly anywhere because you cannot carry a lot of cash and valuables like gold, jewelry, including watches, and cash. AFAIK the legal limit is somewhere around 20k EUR. So, in a situation where you have to migrate with a lot of money, bitcoin is the obvious choice.

If I remember correctly, in the European Union you can travel with up to 10k euro without declaring the money; if you have more than 10k euro with you, you can still travel but you are require to declare the money, if you don't and they discover you, the money will probably be confiscated until when your position is clarified. I think in the USA is pretty much the same but instead of 10k euro is $10k. But as I previously said, we're talking about declaring the money, not as a maximum limit you are allowed to bring with you.

The thing is, a WW3 scenario would bring out desperation and physical assets would likely be overlooked. Aside from Ukraine, try to look back at the wealthy jews during WW2. Not many of them survived as well. Money didn't get them salvation. In case of a nuke warefare, both fiat, gold, and crypto would be less important where you can't exchange them for more essential things. Everyone loses. But fiat and gold did get through two world wars and though it's going to be a lot worse, these assets will also survive a third one. Crypto, which isn't really a physical aspect may or may not.

I don't think we can somehow compare what happened in WWII with what could happen in a hypothetical WWIII because we live in a completely different world now: if today a country launches a nuclear attack then there is a high probability that we are going to have a chain reaction from the allies of the countries involved, and this would turn into a way bigger world war. At that point gold, cash, crypto, everything would be useless, the only thing that will matter is finding a way to survive.

Many people also think that gold, bitcoin, money...everything will become useless if war breaks out, but I don't think so. I believe that even when there is war, the economy still works to some extent, I mean money is still used and people with more money will have better privileges and more life opportunities more. If you don't have money, gold, or bitcoin in hand, you won't be able to buy food or drinks, but if you have a lot of money in hand, I believe you can buy those things. As long as there is a need, someone will provide it for us, that's how this world operates whether there is war or not.

For me, it all comes down at the size of the war: if it's a "small" war like what is going on in Ukraine, and by small I mean that it's about only a few countries, than people can still go somewhere else and yes, of course any type of money would help a lot. If we are talking about a possible WWIII with all the countries launching nuclear attacks to each other then we must understand that life as we know it will be gone for centuries. In an hypothetical post-nuclear world water and food would be way more valuable than gold or cash.