Hitler's policies specifically targeted which of the following groups?

Hitler's policies specifically targeted minorities, particularly Jews, as central to his ideology and the implementation of the Holocaust. The Nazi regime propagated anti-Semitic beliefs, blaming the Jewish population for Germany's economic struggles and social issues, which were exacerbated following World War I. This led to systematic discrimination, disenfranchisement, and violence against Jews, culminating in the establishment of concentration camps and the genocide known as the Holocaust, where approximately six million Jews were murdered.

While other groups, such as women, business owners, and trade unions, were also affected by Nazi policies, these measures were not as systematically violent or targeted as those against the Jewish population. Women were encouraged to fulfill traditional roles in society; business owners faced regulation rather than outright extermination; and trade unions were dissolved, but this was part of a broader control of labor rather than a singular campaign against a specific ethnicity or religion.