The highest number assigned to a prisoner at Auschwitz was 202,499. All prisoners and survivors on "Hunters" have numbers that are slightly higher, ensuring that no real person's number is used.
Tom Soobzokov, a politically connected Circassian refugee in Paterson, New Jersey, was identified by his fellow immigrants as a former Nazi in the mid-1970s. He became the subject of major press coverage and was ultimately murdered in a pipe bomb attack. His story is one of the inspirations for this scene.
Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany in 1940 because various embargoes prevented the importing of necessary ingredients for Coca Cola into the Reich.
The first African American female FBI agent was Sylvia Mathis, who began her career with the Bureau in 1976.
The gas used in the Nazi gas chambers was an insecticide and rat poison called Zyklon B.