National Socialism flows directly from his theological critique of dominating power. In his 1933 address on “the Führer principle”[38] Bonhoeffer made a sharp distinction between leadership that served an office—such as teacher, parent, statesman[39]—and the leader (Führer) who made the office serve himself and thus became the vehicle for collective egotism—another name for idolatry—and all its destructive consequences. While abuse of power sank to the depth of genocide in Nazi Germany, it was not