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It was not actually the Germans. They did not exist yet. It was the Germanic peoples. Germanic is a linguistic group which includes German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and English. These Germanic peoples were the ancestors of the modern day peoples who speak the mentioned languages.
The Germanic peoples invaded the western part of the Roman Empire. The Vandals, Sueves, Alans (who were an Iranian-speaking people) and Burgundians from central Europe invaded Gaul (France) in 406. The Alemanni from southern Germany took advantage of this to seize Lorraine (in northeastern Gaul) and Switzerland. The Visigoths and the Franks, who had been allowed to settle in the Roman Empire, also took over Roman territories. The Angels, Saxons and Jutes from northern Germany and the Frisians from northern Holland migrated to Britannia in waves and took it over.
The Germanic peoples eventually formed their own kingdoms: The Vandals in Northwestern Africa, the Visigoths in Spain, and the Burgundians in Burgundy and Savoy, in eastern Gaul. The Alans moved to Africa with the Vandals. The Sueves were under the kingdom of the Visigoths. The Franks took over northern and central France and eventually took over the whole of France.
The eastern part of the Roman Empire was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist for another 1,000 years.
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