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That's probably what put Halder over the edge to refuse responsibility for the offensives. Liddell Hart said the Fuhrer told Halder to 'Push here, push there' in big sweeps of his arms around the maps.
Halder didn't do it but Zeitzler who followed him did but even he was in hindsight too enthusiastic trying to carry out Hitler's orders under deteriorating circumstances. That 'no withdrawal' command appeared to really show that the Fuhrer was not the one he was earlier in the war when it came to making Germany win on the battlefield.
I didn't realize that a quest for oil was such an important part of the invasion of the Soviet Union. I was under the impression that Germany met most of its oil needs through Romanian supplies, particularly from Ploesti.
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