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Wonder who those 1930's Mauser 'customers' were? German expats, dealers?
There is still a minority of ethnical Germans, about 22 000 or 1% of the population, living in Namibia. Most of them are farmers (ranchers in American parlance), but many commercial operations are still owned by Germans too. The cultural and economical influence of the Namibia Germans far exceeds their numbers. Most of the families settled there way before WW1 when the country was still Deutsch Südwest. Those Mausers were probably imported by Rosenthal’s in Windhoek, still the largest gunshop in the country.
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