Rabbits lived for 28 years within the security zone of the Berlin Wall. The area, known as the ‘death strip,’ was intended to prevent escapes from East Berlin, but for wildlife it created an unusual refuge. Protected from predators and largely undisturbed by humans, rabbits established a population along the 150-kilometer stretch. After the Wall fell in 1989, this habitat disappeared, and the animals were forced to migrate or adapt to new conditions. Their story later became the subject of the documentary Rabbit à la Berlin, which uses their perspective as an allegory of life during and after the Cold War.