The Israeli historian Tom Segev has dismissed Orbach 's claims that Goerdeler was a philo - Semitic , stating that Goerdeler was an anti-Semitic who supported Zionism only .
Goerdeler disliked the idea of German Jews living in Germany .
The Israeli historian Tom Segev has dismissed Orbach 's claims that Goerdeler was a philo - Semitic , stating that Goerdeler was an anti-Semitic who supported Zionism only because he disliked the idea of German Jews living in Germany .