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~90% of German ancestry comes from the Iron Age populations of Germany, which includes pre-Germanic Celts. This increases to >95% when you model them with Early Medieval Germans. Their remaining ancestry comes from neighboring Medieval Balts or Slavs (the % varies by region).
They were recognized as a distinct people during Roman times and united under the Holy Roman Empire during the Early Middle Ages. The HRE was renamed to "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" in 1512 AD. Ludicrous to claim that there are no biological Germans.
This is a figure from a recently updated study on the Germanic expansion corroborates the model in OP. Note that Poles are just under half Germanic and that Germans have around 10% Late Bronze Age Baltic-related ancestry. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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