Pimpfe

Cover of the Pimpf im Dienst training manual, 1934

Pimpf is a German nickname for a boy before the voice change. It is a colloquial word from Upper German meaning "boy", "little rascal", "scamp", or "rapscallion" (originally "little fart").[1][2]

During the period of German National Socialism, Pimpf was a term referring to a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk, the youngest section of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany. The boys would be taught to be loyal to Hitler and the regime. Membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory after 1939.[3]

Nowadays, the term is not often used and is not at all associated with National Socialism.

References

  1. ↑ Dudens Rechtschreibung
  2. ↑ Heberer, Patricia (2011) Children During the Holocaust, AltaMira Press, ISBN 978-0-7591-1984-0 (p. 265)
  3. ↑ Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.


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