'Paragraph 175' is a 2000 documentary film directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and narrated by Rupert Everett. The film, which won Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival 2000, is the testimony of several men and women who were arrested by the Nazis for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy law against the German Criminal Code, which dated back to the first draft 1871, and was exacerbated by the Nazis.

Between 1933 and 1945, 100,000 people were arrested in accordance with paragraph 175. Some of them were imprisoned, others sent to concentration camps. Only 4,000 survived. Five of them came out of the closet in the documentary and told their stories, considered the last of the Third Reich are not completely known, for the first time: Karl Gorath, Heinz Dormer, Pierre Seel, Albrecht Becker Heinz F.