Alternate strategies used by the germans post Stalingrad?

[SCOUT 5249]

What if after the disaster at Stalingrad, the German army and my extension Hitler adopted a more cautious strategy after the fiasco, not to win but force the eastern front into a stalemate?

What could the Germans have tried?
What would be resulting arms race be like?
What would be the effect on the Anglo American forces as the Soviets are struggle to break the deadlock?

 

[Bountifulauto82]

Germany could not afford a stalemate. Any attempts to hold on to what they have would just help the Soviets, giving them more breathing room to prepare for a push against the Germans. Germany needed a quick victory, or none at all.

 

[marktaha]

Let the Generals have a free hand to fight the way they wanted to -Stalin would very likely have made a deal after a time.He hardly had to worry about public opinion!

 

[Bellacinos]

Let the Generals have a free hand to fight the way they wanted to -Stalin would very likely have made a deal after a time.He hardly had to worry about public opinion!

operation Citadel was the generals idea which hitler did not want to do and Hitler ended up being right. Hitler was no military genius but it wasn’t really till after Dday he started making insane decisions but the war was long over by Then.

 

[Vault Dweller]

operation Citadel was the generals idea which hitler did not want to do and Hitler ended up being right. Hitler was no military genius but it wasn’t really till after Dday he started making insane decisions but the war was long over by Then.

A number of high-ranking Heer commanders had deep misgivings about Citadel; several at least wanted, after Third Kharkov, to switch to strategic defence for the rest of 1943 (both elastic and static depending on the differing frontal areas and circumstances) with counter-offensives only as required: the "bleed the Soviets white" school, more or less.

 

[King Augeas]

So did Hitler AIUI... Think part of the reason why Citadel happened was that they felt they had to do something and couldn't figure out a better plan because the alternatives didn't look great either.

 

[The Tai-Pan]

When the USSR didn't collapse in the first year or two, the writing was on the wall. The USSR was too big, too well armed and too stubborn to defeat on the field by then.

 

[Galba Otho Vitelius]

"What if after the disaster at Stalingrad, the German army and my extension Hitler adopted a more cautious strategy after the fiasco, not to win but force the eastern front into a stalemate?"

They did do this. Why did you think otherwise?