Excerpted from the 17th article of William Pierce’s “Who We Are:
a Series of Articles on the History of the White Race”: The
Gothic nation, as was mentioned in the previous installment, had
established itself on the southern shore of the Baltic, around
the mouth of the Vistula, before 300 B.C. Prior to that the
Goths had lived in southern Sweden. Conquest of the Steppe The
Goths west of the Dniester—the Visigoths—moved down into the
Danubian lands west of the Black Sea, where they inevitably came
into conflict with the Romans. They conquered the Roman province
of Dacia for themselves, after defeating a Roman army and
killing a Roman emperor (Decius) in the year 251. For the next
century and a quarter both the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths
prospered, while the fortunes of the Roman Empire continued to
decline. The Goths, who were excellent seamen, raided the Black
Sea coastal cities of Asia Minor at will, and Rome was also hard
pressed to defend other portions of her long border with the
Germans. Toward the end