AHC: A country is culturally "Germanized" after 1946

With a POD of 1946 or later, have a country that is not Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or Luxembourg, culturally assimilate to speaking German as a plurality native language, and absorb German pop culture/mass media in a significant way.
 
With a POD of 1946 or later, have a country that is not Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or Luxembourg, culturally assimilate to speaking German as a plurality native language, and absorb German pop culture/mass media in a significant way.

The Allies decide to resolve the Austrian-Italian controversy over South Tyrol by creating an independent South Tyrol? [1] (Very unlikely, I know, and anyway the POD would have to be a little before your 1946 proposal, since in September 1945 "the fate of the area was in effect determined by the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Big Four (US, USSR, UK, and France) which turned down Austria's request (without ruling out 'minor territorial rectifications' in the future" https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...urn-south-tyrol-alto-adige-to-austria.397862/).

[1] Someone even suggested an independent Tyrol embracing both South and North Tyrol, but by 1945 the Allies were already committed to restoring Austria within its pre-1938 borders. https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...nt-tyrol-post-ww2-is-it-a-possibility.438263/
 
Things go badly in Germany for whatever reason. A lot of Germans flee to Namibia. For whatever reason, many of them actually end up being major figures in resisting Apartheid. For whatever reason, German becomes preferred to Afrikaans by anti-apartheid activists, some of the ones born after 1918 who become odd Kaiserboos ("things were better back then, no boers"). People start learning German as a way to "oppose" the mandatory Afrikaans education of the apartheid regime.

Bam, after Apartheid ends, Namibia declares one of the official languages to be German, which becomes the most popular language of education for black Namibians.
 
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