Winner of the German Film Critics Award for best documentary, Images of the World and the Inscription of War is a film essay around the analysis of aerial photographs taken on the area of Auschwitz and surroundings by an American reconnaissance aeroplane on 4 April 1944, searching for factories and power plants and missing the concentration camp images. By comparing these photographs with Nazi images of the concentration camp and drawings by Alfred Kantor, a jew prisoner, Farocki - through a didactic and ruminantly reflexive - question the image historic role as a control and power tool. He discusses the ambivalence of the world ́s relation with the photography, or cinema, in the desire to believe in the veracity of the images, at the same time being sceptical about them.