Forgotten for many years, until republication in 1985 in England and the United States, literary historian Andy Croft has described Swastika Night as "the most original of all the many anti-fascist dystopias of the late 1930s."
Literary historian Andy Croft, whose research had been largely overlooked until republication in 1985 in England and the United States, has characterized Swastika Night as "the most innovative among all the anti-fascist dystopias from the late 1930s."