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Part One: Basil Zaharoff: The Man Who Sold World War One

Behind the Bastards

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Prince Zacharias Basilius Zacharoff was born in a small town in Anatolia, which is like Turkey, on October 6th, 1849. His parents were Greeks, and they'd spent most of the mid 1840s fleeing political instability as Greece fought for its independence from the Ottoman Empire. They changed the family last name from Zacharias Decies to Zacharoff, so that they could pretend to be Russians. As an old man, he told a teenage girl that he wanted to have sex with children.

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