P in German/Context

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

G. Schmundt-Thomas writes:
"Pynchon is available in German! Apparently the translation of GR is quite good -

even if much of the cultural context is illegible for the average German reader."

How about the *German* cultural context?  I'm curious about how Pynchon's use
of German films, economic and political history, u.s.w. appear to Germans.

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN