>Arminius is slavic, Cherusci were Slavs. Germans is name of western Slav which was appropriated by Scatinavians. Germans in the beginning were seperated from Scatinavians by celtic-speaking people of Denmark Cimbri, Aesti/Haestingas and Teutoni. One of influential scatinavian people who spread scatinavian language in Germania were Vinili who settled were slavic Dulgubni lived and renamed themselves as Longobardi after slavic Dulgubni. >Slavic people living nerar Rhine were incorporated without fight into realm of Charlemagne as Einhard writes (and he stresses it that these rhenish people were slavic speaking, just as Obotrites and Bohemians)
All land to Rhein was inhabited by Slavs.
"lastly, all the barbarous and fierce nations lying between the Rhine, the Vistula, the Ocean, and the Danube, who speak much the same language, but in character and dress are very unlike. The chief of these last are the Welatabi, the Sorabi, the Abodriti, and the Bohemians; against these he waged war, but the others, and by far the larger number, surrendered without a struggle."

>Segestes of Cherusci is slavic name Siegost, known from Bull of Gniezno