Father Alois Dangelmaier documented the deportation of 75 residents of the Liebenau care institution on October 2, 1940, in a color slide framed with glass. Although the Liebenau Foundation’s archives hold several versions, the original is either lost or unidentifiable. Its frame was labeled: “1.3.5.6 Euthanasia transport Liebenau 1940, taken by Father Alois Dangelmaier, G. Ritter (M.D.) and nurse M. Fausta,” the latter two being shown in the photo. Dangelmaier took the picture from a window of St. Joseph’s House, slightly elevated above the scene. The window frame is faintly visible in the shadow at the left edge. Staff from the Liebenau institution and the Grafeneck killing center can be seen registering the patients for deportation in the foreground, with a Reichspost bus in the background.

In the late 1950s, the photographer Father Alois Dangelmaier handed a parcel with 31 slides to Dr. Bernhard Ehrmann, senior physician of the Liebenau care and nursing institution at the time. They showed pictures taken during Dangelmaier’s visits to the institution between 1940 and 1942. The senior physician kept the pictures for himself until the 100^th anniversary of the Liebenau Foundation in 1970. Since its publication by Ehrmann in 1970, this deportation photograph has played a key role in the remembrance of the euthanasia murders in the Liebenau Foundation and countrywide. Today Dangelmaier’s photographs are distributed across the holdings of the Liebenau Foundation and cannot be identified any more.