Hey, leave the poor Bold key off, it looks awful!
That would be interesting in terms of severance and early retirement pay. Unless he took the Long Knives approach and shot them all
And he said that when exactly?
And now let's split this paragraph:
1 - First of all in peacetime having someone promoted is a can of worms because you simply have to have your Colonel going through some Staff College to get the proper graduation (a course can take years) and then he gets to be a Majorgeneral. More years and seniority will bring the guy to Leutnantgeneral and General.
It takes years to form a proper Chief of Staff, and don't say anything about the Quartermasters and other logistics specialists!
You can't simply pull a colonel 'from the ranks' and give him a new set of epaulettes and call him a general. In wartime this is normal as generals get dismissed, shot, hanged, or become casualties.
Besides, what you say not borne out by reality. Just look at the Campaign of France. How many Feldmarschalls were created after that? So Adolf couldn't so unhappy with his generals, that was only his usual hogwash.
2 - Himmler was too busy being chief of the entire SS apparatus. One of Heinie the Chicken Farmer was he always took more load than his capacity allowed. In any case he was no field commander at all, unless you count the sorry incident of him being Commander Army of the Vistula when he spent most of his time in a spa curing a convenient "flu". And in any case the Waffeen-SS (which didn't even have that name at the time) was composed only of 3-4 underequipped regiments.
Rommel's higher abilities has been largely disputed in this forum, but there is no doubt he made a very competent PzDiv Commander in the French Campaign, so yes, he could be part of the plan but watch out for the Peter Principle.
3 - Now you're talking sense. Your plan of restaffing the General corps with rookie colonels would be a complete disaster
4 - Bullseye!
5 - Well, you're new to the forum and we are polite people and appreciate more polite people
But be warned, when you stick your neck out with obviously crazy ideas and, worse, badly thought out arguments, some of our members can be ruthless and tear you to tiny shreds, so do your homework and think beforehand the pros and cons of an argument if you want to survive in this forum