Heinz "Saddi" Dörmer[1] (8 January 1912 – 28 September 1998) was a German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for homosexuality under Paragraph 175.
He was repeatedly released and rearrested, spending more than ten years in a variety of concentration camps and prisons.
Deeply involved with church youth groups as a child, by age fifteen, he was frequenting Berlin's gay bars.
"ring of wolves"), which combined sexual affairs, amateur theatre performances, and travel.
He died in 1998, but made an appearance in the 2000 documentary film Paragraph 175, which portrays survivors of persecution then authorised under the German anti-male homosexuality law of the same name.