“I am always amazed when such events occur, which are recurrent even among the highest institutional levels, in which such serious historical errors emerge”. The historian Alberto De Bernardi, honorary professor at Alma Mater University of Bologna, says this to the Adnkronos, commenting on the gaffe of the Prime Minister who, to commemorate the centenary of the Unknown Soldier, published a postcard in its institutional channels, subsequently withdrawn, in which soldiers appeared, probably Americans, with the uniform of World War II and not of the First, with, in the background, a vague geographical map of Colombia or the Iberian Peninsula, certainly not of Italy. The error of the historical-geographical context has raised criticism from the Brothers of Italy, which has announced a question “to track down those responsible for this sloppiness”. “There is little historical competence – continues De Bernardi – It is a mistake that cannot be made, that of confusing uniforms and a geographical map with another: things that denounce the carelessness with which the cultural identity of a nation. An oversight can also happen and should not be exploited, but it is equally true that, if mistakes like this are made, there is a lowering of the quality of those who are in charge of controlling, who obviously have a cultural level below the lawful “. “These are serious and all too frequent events”, insists De Bernardi, recalling that “recently the president of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte also made a similar mistake, exchanging the Warsaw ghetto with that of Rome to speak on social media of the roundups of the Jews of the capital by the Nazis. It is disconcerting – says the historian – that the former prime minister or whoever was commissioned to do so used such a well-known photograph ”.