Pre-Germanic speculation

From: armanddoriot
Message: 26681
Date: 2003-10-28

I've read that Germanic peoples might be a non IE people which learned
IE by an invading IE people, and that this original non IE's might
have been Uralic or even Semitic, hence the oddity of Germanic as far
as IE languages go.
Has anyone heard of this? And what the bases might be for this
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