Pimpfen
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Pimpf is a colloquial name for a boy before the voice change.

In the German National Socialism The Pimpfe were the youngest subsection of the Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...

, prevalent in Nazi Germany from 1933–1945, when the Allied Victory in the Second World War brought down the Nazi regime. "From the age of six to ten, a boy served a sort of apprenticeship for the Hitler Youth as a Pimpf." The kids would be taught to be loyal to Hitler and the regime (See Deutsches Jungvolk
Deutsches Jungvolk
thumb|250px|DJ TroopThe Deutsches Jungvolk was the subdivision of the Hitler Youth for boys aged 10 to 14. It reinforced the National Socialist view of Aryan ideals and transmitted the Nazi idea of the Volksgemeinschaft...

). Membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory after 1939.

Nowadays the term is not often used and is not at all associated with national socialism.
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