Preussisch-Holland T-Shirt

The town was founded by settlers from Holland in the late 13th Century — thus its true name, Preußisch Holland, meaning Prussian Holland. It is located in the Prussian historical region of Hockerland, and was the place of "The Great Sleigh Drive", a large military operation in 1678. As a part of the Prussian province of East Prussia, it thus became part of Germany in 1871 with the unification. With the invasion of the Red Army in early 1945 and the end of the war, Historical *Preußisch Holland* was annexed by Poland officially in 1948. It was then renamed Pasłęk and the surviving ethnic Germans were ethnically cleansed from the town by either murder or expulsion.