What this means -- what Winston is concluding -- is that the Party needs people to believe whatever it says. It needs them and commands them to disregard what they know and to believe only what it tells them.
The case of the three men you mention shows this. It is clear from the picture he finds that the men did not commit the crimes that they confessed to. But this shows Winston how much reality has changed. He and others who have his job had changed reality so much that no one would ever take this picture seriously.
When Winston sees the picture, he realizes how the rewriting of history makes true memory and use of common sense very difficult in this society. People have to just rely on what the Party says.
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