ABSTRACT
This chapter describes political influence of the concept of "nation" in Poland. It presents the issues of education and nation within the European culture. The chapter outlines the evolutionary themes in popular books on Polish history. The chapter also describes the creator of modern Polish nationalism: Roman Dmowski, a politician, whose ideology combines very clearly on two guiding themes – biological and romantic. The chapter shows the presence of nationalism in historical education during the period of communism in Poland. It introduces the contemporary reflection of the concept "nation" in Polish politics. Radoslaw Sikorski, in an interview for the German weekly magazine Die Zeit, called Angela Merkel "one-quarter Polish". However, that did not refer to the citizenship of the chancellor, nor to her ideological relationship with Polish "solidarity", but rather the place of origin of one of her ancestors.
