In 1942 in The New York Times Magazine, Millay mourned the destruction of the Czech village Lidice. Nazi forces had razed Lidice, slaughtered its male inhabitants and scattered its surviving residents in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Millay wrote: "The whole world holds in its arms today / The murdered village of Lidice, / Like the murdered body of a little child." This article would serve as the basis of her 32-page work "Murder of Lidice," published by Harper and Brothers in 1942. The poem loosely served as the basis of the 1943 MGM movie Hitler's Madman.
In 1942 in The N.ew York Times Magazine Millay mourned the destruction of the Czech village Lidice. Nazi forces had razed Lidice, slaughtered its male inhabitants and scattered its surviving residents in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Millay wrote: "The whole world holds in its arms today / The murdered village of Lidice, / Like the murdered body of a little child" This article would serve as the basis of, her 32-page work "Murder of Lidice," published by Harper and Brothers in 1942. The poem loosely served a.s the basis of the 1943 MGM movie Hitler's Madman.