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Cover Illustration: The headlight of a Volkswagen T2 bus condenses two of the features in the December issue. On the one hand, as the preeminent symbol of Hitler’s ability to make car ownership a widespread aspiration of German citizens under the Third Reich, the VW lends credence to Andrew Denning’s argument in his article “‘Life Is Movement, Movement Is Life!’” that “mobility politics” were a central component of Nazism. At the same time, a generation later, the VW became attached to countercultural values aimed at rejecting the West’s values of consumption, growth, and complacency. Such generational transformation is the topic of this year’s AHR Conversation, “Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations.” Photo by Dennis Wong. Wikimedia Commons.