The article explains the aim and structure of the book "The Germanic Loanwords in Proto-Slavic" and presents an updated overview of the words that are to be regarded as Proto-Slavic loanwords from the German language within the framework set by the works of Leiden Slavists and Indo-Europeanists. It also cites the works of Adolf Stender-Petersen, Valentin Kiparsky and Viktor Vl. Martyov on Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic.