The Gold Rush... Hey Germany, What's Happenin?

Google Analytics is a wonderful tool. It will give you the what, when, where of any visitor data to your web page(s) but it lacks the thing I'm always most curious about: Why?

A recent review of statistics for this blog shows that on February 10th, just two weeks ago, I had 1159 distinct visitors to this page... 86% of them from Germany. Do I know why? No, I don't. Does Analytics know why? Nope, they don't. Do I know what they were looking at? Yes, I do. This blog entry from December, 2008.

Looks like a gold rush to me, but why?