On his campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitler also directed his attention to the oil wells in the Caucasus. The strategically crucial Crimea was occupied during this campaign. Under the command of Colonel General Manstein, the capture started in November 1941. The battle continued till summer 1942 and ended with the conquest of Sevastopol. The armed forces and the SS left a scene of destruction: in the Crimea alone, more than half a million people were killed; cities like Kerch and Sevastopol were razed to the ground. Among these atrocities, there were individual soldiers who acted human and barbaric at the same time. During the recapture of the Crimea by the Russian troops in 1944, the armed forces member Erwin Domian wrote down his experiences. His Taurian diary contains notes from Fiolent and Balaklava, the southernmost point of the Eastern front. According to them, it was almost impossible to maintain resistance against the Soviet attackers. However, after the battle, the commanding Lieutenant Colonel Sch. attends to his own archaeological studies: “He has never been so close to the myth!” Then, in the evenings, as the diary reveals, he sits by the campfire and reads out of his self-written version of the poem Iphigenia in Tauris. The artists will stage various dreams and nightmares of the soldiers in the officers` rooms and other premises situated next to the main channel.