Are Germans closely related to the ancient Aryans?

There is so much in common, regardless of what race existed when and where, I see no point to even dealing with the subject. A lot of history regarding races is blurred and often a matter of opinion, sometimes biased opinion. Like read this a href="http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/aryan_people_origins.php" rel="nofollow"http://www.iranchamber.com/history/artic…/a