Shadow of the Swastika consisted of eight programmes and an Epilogue. Two of these eight were in the form of panoramic surveys of the whole of Nazi history from 1918 to I 940. 

They were made up in the main of scenes ex-tracted from the scripts presented in this book. No useful purpose could be served by their appearance in this volume. 

The Epilogue was called: 'The Nazis at War.' 

It dealt en-tirely with conditions inside Germany and the conquered territories, from the outbreak of the present war until the end of January 1940. 

It was different in form from the rest of the scripts. Its character was more transient; its purpose was to bring the story up-to-date. 

This it did. But some months have gone by since it was broad-cast, and already much of the material included in that programme has been dwarfed by greater happenings. 

It was, therefore, considered unnecessary to include it in this volume. Here, then, are the scripts, specially edited for this volume, of Shadow of the Swastika, which dramatize Nazi history, as objectively as possible, from the last war to the present war. 

These are only the scripts. 

Much of the success of the broadcasts depended on the brilliant music of George Walter, the no less brilliant work of the producer, Laurence Gilliam, and the consistent enthusiasm and intelligence of the large group of actors who worked on the series, and helped to prove what many, both inside and outside the BBC had doubted, that fact can be more striking, more compelling, and more dramatically effective than fiction.

London, April 1940 

As llustrated above these BBC Radio Programs were Broadcast and advertised throughout the world during World War 2 to an unheard of  audience.