My Bavarian Aunt, during WW2, used to breed rabbits in an old wardrobe so that the SS wouldn’t find them.
Its in the ancestral genes!
She may have even had later correspondence with C.S. Lewis who employed a wardrobe as a literary device.Who knows?
I am amazed at the spunk and pluck related in your stories about your Bavarian relatives.Its as if the Nazis could barely touch them.