The origin of the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The Final Solution was implemented in stages. After the Nazi party rise to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, Aryanization, and finally the Night of Broken Glass pogrom, all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German society.