Did most of Hitler's generals advocate stalemate?

Question

And what would be some likely scenario?

Answer 1

There was a common thought amongst many of the Generals including those involved with plotting against Hitler that Germany should try and come to terms in the west and continue the war in the east. At the Casablanca talks between Churchill and Roosevelt any hope of this was crushed as FDR announced that the Allies demanded unconditional surrender of Germany.

On the eastern front Guderian and Manstein advocated withdrawing further to the west and building a series of defensive barriers in the east. Hitler nixed this plan. However, it was unlikely that even this plan would have worked given the declining strength of the Wehrmacht. Time was never a friend of the Germans during the war as the allies would grown stronger at a faster rate than Germany as was the case throughout the war.

Answer 2

Most of his generals did not advocate stalemate. There were a number who believed that Germany could not outright win the war and would seek to set up a possible peace pact with the allied forces. Heinrich Himmler had negotiated a possible peace with the allies which threw Hitler into a rage. Rudolph Hess of course, had flown to Scotland in order to seek a peace pact.

Even Hitler himself stated in 1941 that there is no need for Britain and Germany to be at war, and blamed Churchill for wanting to continue it.

Answer 3

No, in fact the stalemate mentality was a problem that plagued the French & British in the opening stages of WW2 prior to the German invasion of France where they were of the thought that the German invasion would end up in trench warfare, just as in WW1

Most of the generals baulked at the idea of opening a second front by invading Russia but went ahead nonetheless due to their loyalty to Hitler. However, they wanted to do battles using the indirect approach, keeping the enemies off their tracks but were denied this by being ordered to take objectives that were obvious, thus losing their element of surprise.

Also, when they were on the defensive, they were denied permission to retreat to & regroup at a more defensible positions or adopt elastic defence lines, condemning countless soldiers to lose their lives meaninglessly.