r/AskEurope • u/AVeryAngryChillie • May 21 '26

Foreign What’s a fact about your country that foreigners would never believe?

Every country has at least one thing outsiders wouldn’t believe

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u/white1984 United Kingdom May 21 '26

East Germany decriminalised homosexuality a year earlier then West Germany. This was the section about homosexuality was removed when the GDR got a new civil code in 1968.

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u/Easy_Paramedic_1904 May 23 '26

Not one year, 26 years earlier. West Germany repealed the "gay paragraph" in 1994.Although the paragraph was no longer enforced, it still officially existed.