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So its November 8th what could Germany done differently, with a POD at that point, to avoid such epic defeats such as Stalingrad and give themseleves at least a sporting chance in 43-44 of something close to a stalemate. The front is stuck in the east, Rommel is retreating, the Allies are landing in north-west Africa, British night bomber raids are getting worse. It should be obvious that some things are going to have to change right now.

Hitler is going to insist that a position on the Volga is maintained and that you can't evacuate the Caucasus, and that a bridgehead in Africa has to be maintained so changing those are off the table, but everything else is on the table.

I will throw out a few:
1) Evacuate the Demyansk and Rzhev salients immediately to create some reserves for the long front on the Don.
2) The Navy couldn't do anything about Torch, get mad and do the scrap the fleet order now in November 1942. Stop any work on repairing or building the big ships (nothing bigger than the T22 class torpedo boats). Keep only the Tirpitz and 5 destroyers only as a fleet in being in Norway, never ever have them leave Alta, all the other medium size ships like Sharnhorst, Hipper, Scheer on down, should be kept in the Baltic for training only. Move the extra destroyers to French Atlantic bases to bring in the blockade runners or to escort the most valuable uboats (oilers).
3) The little blitz of 42 was pathetic, the British boming raids impressive, get mad about that, privately make Goering a ceremonial leader only, scale back bomber production now, scrap the He177 and FW 200, build a few JU290s for atlantic recon only. If Hitler has to have his retribution, concentrate on the quickest and cheapest rocket design, i.e. V1. (at least it doesn't waste pilots)
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