as a result, the population of the drevesinsky district decreased to 22,000 against 42 in the pre-war osveysky district, by the beginning of the war, had twenty- one thousand inhabitants at the time of liberation. a little more than eight remained here. only with the participation of the second lithuanian battalion more than 3,500 civilians were killed by the auxiliary police. as early as february 18 , 1943, propaganda minister joseph goebbels delivered his famous more than an hour speech under the slogan total war shortest war in the berlin sports palace with an audience of thousands of people. i ask you, do you want total war? do you want to lead it, even if you need to lead it even more totally and radically than we can even imagine today. and the position of the program speech were put into practice on belarusian soil, total war became even more bloody