Karl Gorath (12 December 1912, Bad Zwischenahn − 18 March 2003, Bremerhaven[1]) was a gay man who was arrested in 1938 and imprisoned for homosexuality at Neuengamme and Auschwitz.
[2] Gorath was imprisoned at Neuengamme near Hamburg, Germany, and was forced to wear a pink triangle, identifying him as gay and a transvestite.
Because of his medical training, Gorath was transferred to work at a prisoner hospital in a sub-camp of Neuengamme.
There he wore the red triangle of a political prisoner, which he believed spared him the brutality inflicted on inmates identified as gay.
The film, by producers Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein and narrated by Rupert Everett, is called Paragraph 175.