The Polish diplomat was wearing a German flag pin to show his white-supremacist sympathies with Germany's Nazi past. The script explained that racist Poles couldn't use actual Nazi symbols because those have been banned in Poland since the end of World War II, so they used proxy symbols like Confederate flags from the U.S. Civil War to express their racist ideology. "Madam Secretary" is one of the best, most literate shows on TV, and at least part of its appeal is as a nostalgic reminder that once the U.S. was governed by people who lived in the real world instead of the narcissistic egomaniac freak, obsessed by mythical conspiracies, in the White House now.
Review of The Chaos Game
