Wall of Mussert - Lunteren

No other object related to World War II has had more proponents and opponents in being granted national monument status (2018). Just before the Second
World War almost literally the scene of the so-called infamous “Hagepraken. At these annual party meetings, NSB leader Anton Mussert addressed his supporters to strengthen unity among themselves.

The surrounding grounds resembled a Roman open-air theater where crowds of NSB members found a place to sit. Thousands of people playing music and waving flags
waving. Mussert's decadent speeches were pro-German in nature: Mussert told his supporters that Germany was not at war with the Netherlands, but was actually protecting the country from air attacks by the
Allies, witness the speech of June 22, 1940. Ironically, shortly after the outbreak of the
war; the tradition of the Hage speeches was short-lived. The structure has been in decline ever since.

It was no coincidence that precisely Lunteren was chosen to build the Mussert Wall ─ which was part of a much larger complex, The National Home ─. The site is very central and was a Germanic cult site in Roman times. Especially the Germanic former culture and its customs were substantively in line with the ideas of the NSB, and more broadly National Socialism, or Nazism.

Today, a campground (The Goudsberg) has been built around the monument. In 2017, the owner of the campsite applied for a demolition permit from the municipality of Ede. Its granting was opposed by historians, publicists and museum directors via a fire letter to the responsible
minister. It is possible that the Mussert Wall will be restored in the future through a management foundation.