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Because it's interesting. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Interesting historical material is always welcome on Hacker News. It's true that this story includes the words "Nazi" and "Gestapo" in its title; but not all such titles point to uninteresting flamebait, only most of them. Here we're interested in the exceptions to things.

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"not all such titles point to uninteresting flamebait, only most of them"

Talking about flamebait...

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I meant it more as a wry aside to keep the readers of tedious moderation comments mildly entertained, but you're right: it's awfully hard to do that and not cross over into being inflammatory to some readers.