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The ancient germanic people didn't just go out and ritually sacrifice everyone who was ugly. They weren't aztecs or canaanites. There have only been a few bodies found who were sacrificial victims and it was mainly for faggotry or some kind of high level crime (murder, rape, etc). Not because someone was ugly. If that were the case, there would have been thousands of Bog bodies found at this point. Human sacrifice was not a large part of their culture, or any indo european culture for that matter.
>This is why as nomadic barbarians they could challenge rome at every point in history
I love teutoberg as much as anyone else, but the germanic people had their fair share of absolute losses against the romans.
They also weren't nomadic at this point. They lived in permanent settled communities. They had agriculture. They had standing armies. And no, their standing armies were not made up of naked berserkers who could take on 6 trillion romans at one time. They had advanced (at the time) mail armor, better than what the romans had, and weapons that were up to par with what the romans had.
This is the white version of the "noble savage", not rebuking Hollywood (ultimately roman) myths, but romanticizing them at face value. The germanic people were far from barbarians and far from nomadic. They weren't prehistoric stone aged people who only beat the romans because they were 8 feet tall and 400 lbs of pure muscle or some other horseshit.
And the (christian) goths would later conquer rome with standing armies, clad in modern armor and weapons, and using modern military strategies and logistics. Not a wave of brutish barbarians. The barbarian hordes myth probably exists because of that stupid ahistotical fucking painting by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, "the sack of rome". I despise this painting in particular very much.
We just have tacitus' word on what they punished with death, and his word on human sacrifice might be a complete load of shit. Hollywood says vikings sacrificed people all the time, there's no concrete evidence for that either. Not one reliable written account whatsoever. Some monks wrote about it, sure, but is that real? Or just propaganda from the time. How would they even know this?
Human sacrifices were either a taboo in society for indo european people, or extremely rare. There isn't a single one that actively practiced mass-sacrifice. Literally not one. Not even india. When the romans went to Carthage they were disgusted by it. When the romans went to judea they were disgusted by it. Which is why they utterly razed those places to the ground.
There's a reason that Christianity appealed to whites.