What motivated Hitler to divert military resources away from Moscow and towards Stalingrad? He wanted to capture the Soviet research on the atomic bomb He needed the resources to defend against the D-day invasion, which the Allies had just launched He wanted to capture Soviet oil fields
Hitler had always wanted to see Germany expand eastwards to gain Lebensraum or 'living space' for its people. After the fall of France Hitler ordered plans to be drawn up for an invasion of the Soviet Union. He intended to destroy what he saw as Stalin's 'Jewish Bolshevist' regime and establish Nazi hegemony.
