ABSTRACT
Hitler works in a refugee camp as a dogcatcher; Martians get involved in the Third World War; and displaced persons (DPs) resettle on Saturn. In September 1945, the Poles living in a camp for displaced victims of Nazi persecution in Germany published a fictional story in a camp newspaper. The piece, entitled “1995”, takes the reader 50 years forward and shows, in retrospect, the imaginary course of events in the Ds camp. The story works as a distorted mirror, reflecting DPs’ hopes and fears and touching on problems of power relations, daily arrangements in the camp, repatriation, and resettlement. This chapter discusses how this satirical vision of the future, simultaneously utopian and dystopian, ridiculed the issues troubling DPs and provided an original bottom-up critique of the early post-war order.
