World War II and Aftermath
When Soviet troops entered Gotha in 1945, they systematically destroyed all archives of the Almanach de Gotha.
In 1951 a different publisher, C.A. Starke, began publication of a multi-volume German-language publication entitled the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (GHdA). The publication is divided into subsets; the Fürstliche Häuser subset is largely equivalent to the Almanach de Gotha. However, no single volume of the Fürstliche Häuser includes all the families included in the Almanach de Gotha. It is necessary to use multiple volumes to trace the majority of European royal families.
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“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
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