[Hewrig] Wolfram is listened to with approval in all countries that care about this subject. - Walter Goffart

What we call the Fall of the Western Roman Empire was an imaginative experiment that got a little out of hand.

If Europe has had a supreme invented tradition, that of the Germans before Germany is it-so much so that most people who speak about it do not realize that they are dealing with fiction.

My central concern in the present book is... to liberate barbarian history from the German nationalism that has suffused it ever since the sixteenth century and, in whatever disguises, continues to do so today.