That's obviously terrible, but it's nowhere near as bad as the leadership of the other side wanting to massacre all the Jews.
See, this is the classic retort when there's no way to argue your side is the lesser evil.
Since when is being the lesser evil good enough to pick one side over the other?
Virtually always?
Or maybe, you know, just f**k both of them.
That would have worked out wonderfully in WW2. After all, the British Empire and Soviet Union were no prize themselves. So much brutal colonialism, to say nothing of Stalin's atrocities.
And yet...