Ministry of Truth

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Senate House, supposed inspiration for the Ministry of Truth

The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) - Department of the government in charge of all record keeping, history re-writing, and prolefeed.

"It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 meters into the air. The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously. They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided."

[edit] Background

The pyramidal structure of the Ministry of Truth is probably inspired by Senate House in London. The Minstry of Information, for which Orwell worked and most probably served as inspiration for the Ministry of Truth, was located in this building during World War II.