Relayed-by: winkeler@owlnet.rice.edu (Keith E. Winkeler)

A similar, classic example of bitter humor is set in Germany during WW2.
Many variations on this joke exist. Sadly, its quite easy
to adapt the joke to many time frames, i.e. the Inquisition, the
Crusades, ad nauseum.

Jewish Schweinhund! bellows the stormtrooper, Who was responsible
for the Fatherlands defeat in 1918 and the chaos which followed?

The Jews, said the old man, and the bicycle riders.

I dont understand. Why the bicycle riders?

Why the Jews?