The Huns triggered the Great Migration of Germanic peoples into the Western Roman Empire
Historical and archaeological evidence, supported by genetic and climatic studies, indicates that the expansion of the Huns served as a major catalyst for the large-scale movement of Germanic and other tribes into the Western Roman Empire.
The claim is a standard historical proposition well-supported by historical consensus and reinforced by modern multi-disciplinary studies (such as genetic and paleoclimatic papers) documenting the Hunnic expansions and their role in the Migration Period. The available papers do not refute this relationship; rather, papers like [0] and [6] explicitly reference Hunnic expansions and the associated population movements.
Ralph P, Coop G. The geography of recent genetic ancestry across Europe.. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001555
Identifies genetic common ancestors shared between European populations that date roughly to the migration period, explicitly noting the Hunnic expansions into those regions.
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B. Lee Drake. Changes in North Atlantic Oscillation drove Population Migrations and the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01289-z
Links climate shifts in the regions of origin to push factors for the movements of multiple groups, including the Huns, that precipitated the broad population movements of the Migration Period.
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