The provocative documentary was banned in Israel on the ground that it projects a sympathetic image of Adolf Hitler.

When the film opened in Paris, a stolen print from a cinema screening of the film was found strewn before a monument to victims of Nazis in a local cemetery. A bomb was also found in a cinema showing it, but it failed to go off. The incidents were attributed to an anti-fascist group.

The Washington Post called Swastika "the most potent of anti-Nazi films."

Noticed something interesting at 1:05:09; man scrubbing the toes of a statue, six or seven on the right foot. Is there some extra natural reasoning for these extra digits, possibly due to Adolf Hitler's curiosity of the supernatural.

This film's opening prologue reads: ''If the human features of Hitler are lacking in the image of him that is passed on to posterity, if he is dehumanised and shown only as a devil, any future Hitler may not be recognised, simply because he is a human being. What you are about to see is authentic material shot in Nazi Germany. Scenes of Hitler's private life are from his own personal films.''