Ostrogothic settlement

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Wasn't there some World War II-era thesis that claimed that the Croatians
weren't Slavs but descendants of the Ostrogoths?

This sounds liek it might come from some similar pseudo-history.

TM
gutdwala wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, "with that final defeat,the remaining
> Ostrogoths went back north and (re)settled in south Austria." I had
> never heard this before, so I checked every book I could find at my
> Uni's library. They all claimed the same thing's I've always heard,
> that some joined the Franks, some kept their lands in northern Italy,
> some went back to Scandinavia, and some were recruited into
> Justinian's armies and sent to fight in the east. But no one ever
> seems to cite sources or evidence for these claims, and no book
> mentions all of these possibilities. So how much can we really say
> about where the Ostrogoths eventually settled? What evidence do we
> have and what do the sources say? Even Jordanes doesn't mention it.
> Where are authors getting this information?
>
>

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