Many people ask me at book events how this book came to be...how did I know what to write about during a time period I never lived.
Simply, I had a dream. The love between the two characters in my dream was so intense nothing felt more real. So, I wrote about their story, the story I felt in my dream...one night in Thailand while working as a teacher.
Scouring the internet for history and youtube videos of that time period, I was easily saturated with images, sounds, and dialogue from that time period.
Old videos of the German President, Hitler, and even some musicians and swing performers helped to recreate pre war world II Germany. I also found a lot of propaganda from the 30's.
I also heard stories from people who went through it, stories I read about and stories from other people.
What people don't realize is that the discrimination of not only the Jews, but a plethora of peoples, began much earlier that when hitler became chancellor in '34.
The Nazi party spread their ideology as early as the twenties, ripping apart German cities.
I hope everyone who reads this novel feels as much for these two lovers as I did in my dream and feel the wake of destruction the Nazi party thrust upon countless people.
