Pimpf is a German nickname for a boy before his voice changes. It is a colloquial word from Upper German meaning 'boy', 'little rascal', 'scamp', or 'rapscallion' (originally 'little gas-bubble', as opposed to a Pumpf, the adult variant).[1][2] It has the same etymology as 'pimp' and 'pimple'.[3][4][5]
In Nazi Germany, 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[rdp-wiki-embed url='https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler'] More and the regime. Membership in the Hitler[rdp-wiki-embed url='https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler'] More Youth was highly encouraged and incentivised during the mid-to-late 1930s and compulsory from 1939.[6]
The term is no longer commonly used.
References
- ↑ "Duden | Pimpf | Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft". www.duden.de.
- ↑ Heberer, Patricia (2011) Children During the Holocaust, AltaMira Press, ISBN 978-0-7591-1984-0 (p. 265)
- ↑ "On Pimps and Faggots". OUPblog. 6 June 2007.
- ↑ "Definition of PIMP". www.merriam-webster.com. 7 July 2023.
- ↑ "Dwarves, Pimps, and Galoots, or Chance, Luck, and Serendipity in an Etymologist's Work" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
