Pimpfe

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

Members of the Deutsche Jungvolk perform community service

During the period of German National Socialism, Pimpf was a term referring to a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk, the junior section of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany, for boys ten to fourteen. They were taught to be loyal to Hitler and the regime. Membership in the Hitler Youth was highly encouraged and incentivised during the mid-to-late 1930s and compulsory from 1939.[3]

The term is no longer commonly used.

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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