The Germans were an enormous group of tribes and peoples, living East of the Rhine;
most of them moved into the Roman empire.
Some of them have their own entry:
Batavii and Frisians,
Burgundians,
Franks,
Frisians,
Goths which divide in
Visigoths and
Ostrogoths,
Langobardi,
Sueves,
Vandals.
This page deals with Germans as a whole and with tribes that did not cross the Rhine.
In 55 BC Caesar
crossed the Rhine to punish some tribes that had helped the Gauls.
In 9 Varus
was defeated by a German army lead by
Arminius