Goodreads asked Gay Toltl Kinman:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Gay Toltl Kinman "death in hamburg 1974" is based on a story a friend told me. the first part of this novella is true. the soldiers were wearing the current german army uniforms, not those of the s.s. but the plane windows were foggy--it was raining and there were some jewish passengers on board who expressed their concerns about the landing--since that wasn't scheduled. and about that time there had been articles in the newspaper about hunting some of the nazi war criminals. so from that a story grew.

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