The Southern Poverty Law Center on Wednesday continued its “Critical Memory Tour” in Montgomery with a panel discussion on how America and Germany remember their difficult pasts.

Dr. Andreas Etges from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and Dr. Pia Knigge from Montgomery’s Auburn University led the talk exploring how marginalized experiences have been silenced, distorted and now face the risk of being erased altogether.

The Critical Memory Tour is the flip side of a project that began earlier this year, with delegates from the U.S. traveling to Germany to observe how the country grapples with reflecting on the historically dark Nazi regime. The U.S. leg has German delegates touring the U.S. to see how the country paints its history of slavery and the Confederacy.

Etges explained it

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