The record
Five segments on the grounds of a Dutch museum of the 1944 liberation — recorded by the Federal Foundation, which has not yet written up how they got there.
Five segments of the Berlin Wall stand on the grounds of the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels — Wings of Liberation — at Best in North Brabant, a museum of the Allied airborne operations that liberated this part of the Netherlands in September 1944.
That is the whole of what is established. The Federal Foundation's entry for the site is a placeholder: it records the five segments and the museum, and says further information will follow. Nothing is known here about when they arrived, who gave them or where in Berlin they came from, and nothing has been invented to fill the space.
Five is a substantial holding — more than most national capitals in this catalogue — which makes the blank an odd one. The record is published because the site and the count are institutionally sourced. The provenance stays empty until something says otherwise.
How did it get here?
Not established. The Federal Foundation's entry for the site records the five segments without giving their origin.
Sources & verification
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
Five segments of the Berlin Wall on the grounds of the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels at Best; the entry is explicitly a placeholder pending further information.
Source accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Source accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 1377
Last verified: Not yet verified
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