The genetics are in for what we call the AD 500s - when Christ and His Angels slept. The Slavs, or people with Slavic DNA anyway, pushed into Pomerania - and into Croatia. This transfer of population is politely termed "Demic".
At the back of the migration, these populations became 80% Slavic.
I don't know that the culprits in Pomerania were properly Slavic however. Isn't this seen in the Middle Ages as "Prussia"? No Slavs there; the language used to be considered instead "Baltic", but now I understand is termed a third branch of "BaltoSlavic".
As usual, talk of "ancestral" languages get rough before Late Antiquity. Most agree that the territory wasn't originally German, although the ?Slavs ?Prussians took it from Germans. Some call the ancestors here, "Temematic".
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