› Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945 › dpInferno: The World at War, 1939-1945: Hastings, Max ... Max Hastings even describes an instance where Russian soldiers located an old hospital outside of Berlin (Wedding) that housed 800 Jewish inmates "in desperate physical condition." The Russian soldiers raped the Jewish women. Hastings indicates that the Allies probably wouldn't have won WWII without Russia.