Martin Amis - Bayer experiments on women (87) lyrics

And now I had another letter in front of me, as I sat drinking synthetic coffee in Frithuric Burckl's office at the Buna-Werke. “Esteemed Sir,” it began. The correspondent was the chief personnel officer at Bayer, the pharmaceutical firm (a subsidiary of IG Farben), and the addressee was Paul Doll. The transport of 150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain conclusive results as they all died during the experiments. We would kindly like to request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the same price. I looked up and said, “How much are women?” “One seventy RM each. Doll wanted two hundred, but Bayer gypped him down to one seventy. “And what were Bayer testing?” “A new anaesthetic. Overdid it a bit. Obviously.”