The Auschwitz Holocaust survivor's tattoo number B-87693 does not conform with how the numbers were done by the Nazi's. The leading letter of "B" indicates a number assigned beginning in May 1944.The Nazi's though only assigned numbers for each alphabet letter up to the maximum of 20,000, so the number of 87693 could not have been assigned. This was likely done intentionally as the show did not wish to show an actual Holocaust victim's tattoo number out of consideration to any then-surviving family members of the victims.
Quincy's "They came for...." quotes was taken from German pastor Martin Niemoller from the Boston Holocaust Memorial's version of Niemoller's famous speech.
Norman Lloyd, who.p!ays "Sumner", the ho!ocaust denier, is Jewish, whose real name is Perlmutter.
The holocaust was deeply personal to writer Sam Egan. His father was an Auschwitz survivor. Years after writing episode 708, Stolen Tears for Quincy, M.E., Egan wrote another holocaust episode for the sci-fi anthology The Outer Limits (1995-2002), episode 512 titled Tribunal. While the story structure for that episode was different, it still centered around a survivor named Zgierski (Aaron instead of Hyam), and a hidden nazi named Rademacher (Karl instead of Otto). While This episode of Quincy, M.E. has no dedication, the Outer Limits episode ends with the inscription: "For my father, who survived Auschwitz, and his wife and daughter, who did not. Sam Egan"
Jack Klugman and Martin Balsam appeared together in 12 Angry Men (1957). Jack Klugman was Juror No. 5, and Martin Balsam was Juror No. 1, the Foreman.