"My central concern in the present book is... to liberate barbarian history from the German nationalism that has suffu…"

"Strange as it may seem to hear it said, there were no Germanic peoples in late antiquity. The illusion that there wer…"

"The adjective "German;' an umbrella term for many of the diverse northern barbarians of the late Roman period, is the…"

"The main goal of this book is to reform thinking and writing about the barbarians in late antiquity by driving out th…"

"The prehistoric Germans never existed... they are an illusion of misguided scholars. The nonexistence of ancient Germ…"

"Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never existed anywhere else... [A]n "early Germanic world"... had no …"

"[The] theme-the "early Germans"-is still far from being repudiated."

"[M]any scholars of today in Europe and the United States still cherish the existence of a "Germanic world" long anted…"

"[[w:Gustav Kossinna|[Gustav] Kossinna's]] ideas about the early Germans, which have long circulated apart from his na…"

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