Millay fervently supported the United States’ participation in World War II and wrote numerous poems on the subject, the best known of which was a dramatic poem about Nazi atrocities. In reprisal for the 1942 killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a senior SS official, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler ordered that a Czechoslovakian village be razed and all the inhabitants executed or deported. Millay’s poem portrayed the event as the “Murder” of the town; name the village.
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