[Gustav] Kossinna's ideas about the early Germans, which have long circulated apart from his name, have been only superficially purged from the writi… - Walter Goffart

The main goal of this book is to reform thinking and writing about the barbarians in late antiquity by driving out the anachronistic terms "German" and "Germanic" and the baggage that goes with them.

There were no Germans until a Germany materialized little by little in the European Middle Ages. Rome faced outward toward multiple and mutually antagonistic peoples. The existence of an ancient common Germanic civilization reaching deep into the B.C. period is a learned invention of sixteenth-century Germans, based on classical sources well known to us... There was no "Germanic civilization" long ripening north and east of the imperial frontiers.

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