ABSTRACT
This chapter explores German reprints in the attempt to capture roles, uses, and meanings in the defense of Siedlungskolonialismus in past and present. It focuses on the broader production of the reprints, including the history of these texts and their promotion, editing, and distribution. The chapter shows how details of production anticipate an underlining German-centrism. It also focuses on specific settler myths that take shape within the reprints. The chapter argues that the reprints have important contemporary relevance as they attempt to defend and vindicate Siedlungskolonialismus against postcolonial and global critiques. The growing reprint market for German colonial settler narratives emerged alongside developments in the German community in Namibia since the early 1970s. The chapter illustrates that the reprints are reproduced in particular social and political situations that render them products of colonial nostalgia. Narratives of original German settler texts are rather similar.
