FDR's compromise sounds reasonable to my ears! What's 49,000 dead Nazis between friends?

Explanation from Original OP:

In 1943 the leaders of the Allies met for a conference to discuss strategies for winning the war. The American ambassadors, including FDR attempted to use humor to find common ground with Stalin and Molotov. When the topic of what to do with the brass of the Nazi party post war came up, Stalin said that 50,000 of them would have to be executed. When Churchhill began to berate Stalin for such barbarity, FDR chimed in that perhaps they could find a middle ground and only execute 49,000 of them. Churchill became even more enraged and stormed out of the room, causing Stalin to chase after him claiming that it was just a joke and return to the discussions. Most British accounts of this conference take a negative view of the American strategy of using humor, mostly at Churchill’s expense, to befriend Stalin and the Soviets

Edit: extra context taken from eyewitness accounts.

Churchill in his memoirs described the “teasing of me, which I did not at all resent until the Marshal [Stalin] entered in a genial manner upon a serious and even deadly aspect of the punishment to be inflicted upon the Germans. The German General Staff, he said, must be liquidated. The whole force of Hitler’s mighty armies depended upon about 50,000 officers and technicians. If these were rounded up and shot at the end of the war, German military strength would be extirpated.” When Churchill angrily declared he would be no party to such mass retribution, the President quipped that he would act as mediator, and suggested the compromise of shooting only 49,000. In heat, Churchill left the room. Stalin himself fetched him back, assuring him it was all a jest

“I began almost as soon as we got into the conference room,’ FDR told [U.S. Secretary of Labor] Frances Perkins. ‘I said, lifting my hand to cover a whisper (which of course had to be interpreted), Winston is cranky this morning, he got up on the wrong side of the bed. A vague smile passed over Stalin’s eyes, and I decided I was on the right track…I began to tease Churchill about his Britishness, about John Bull, about his cigars, about his habits. It began to register with Stalin. Winston got red and scowled, and the more he did so, the more Stalin smiled. Finally Stalin broke out in a deep, hearty guffaw, and for the first time in three days I saw light. I kept it up until Stalin was laughing with me, and it was then that I called him Uncle Joe. He would have thought me fresh the day before, but that day he laughed and came over and shook my hand.’ John Gunther, the American journalist, asked someone who was there if the incident had really taken place. ‘Yes,’ replied the official, ‘and it wasn’t funny either.’ It was certainly not Churchill’s idea of humour, nor, for that matter, of statesmanship. (343)”