Were the Germans physically superior?

[Robert Vermaat]

Here is an interesting observation by Italian professor Alesandro Barbero:
"The Goths, who were tall and blond or red-haired, physically resembled the Germans.

I wonder how the good professor came to that conclusion. Hair color is hard to see on funerary remains (that is IF the remains can be with any ceratinty be established as 'Gothic' at all). Or what he understood to be 'Germanic' and 'Gothic' in the first place.

The characteristics the two groups shared were all negative in Roman eyes; the dominent race in the Roman world, the race that believed it possesses a superior civilization and regarded all other races with contempt, was composed of short, dark Mediteranean types, and being tall and blond was a mark of inferiority, of poverty, of barbarism."

Another strange observation by the good professor, since a 'dominant Roman' could be anything from British/Gallic/Germanic to Syrian/Armenian/Thtacian, plus every type of human inbetween.

that the nature of "superiority" is in the mind of the winner, not a "race" thing at all.

I agree to that!