Mosley romp had 'overwhelming Nazi theme'

The reporter who exposed Max Mosley's sadomasochistic romp said it had an "absolutely overwhelming Nazi" theme.

The motorsport boss - who is the son of 1930s Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley - is suing the News of the World after it described a sex session he had in a Chelsea flat in March as a "sick Nazi orgy with five hookers".

Footage featuring Mr Mosley and five women beating each other and speaking German while dressed as prisoners and in military-style uniforms was secretly filmed by one of the dominatrices for the newspaper.

Journalist Neville Thurlbeck said: "I didn't quite expect the degree of Nazi-style humiliation that we saw.

"I kind of suspected it might be just some watered-down comedy version of 'Allo 'Allo!"

It was revealed the newspaper was expecting Mr Mosley to give the Nazi Sieg Heil salute and wanted the woman to capture the image.

Mr Mosley's barrister James Price QC asked: "Why should he do it?"

Mr Thurlbeck replied: "Why should he order German dominatrices to beat him with sticks?"

Mr Price said the woman had not done anything "unmistakably Nazi" and that it would have been "terribly easy" for her to have said something like: "Ve are ze SS officers and you are ze Jews" during the role-play.

Mr Thurlbeck replied: "There was an overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming Nazi theme".

Responding to Mr Price's suggestion that it was an English prison scenario, Mr Thurlbeck replied: "I know of no English prison that beats its inmates with a stick until their buttocks bleed.

"I know of no English prison where the warder will deliver those blows and count them in German.

""I know of no English prison where the inmates then have sexual intercourse with the warder who has just given those blows."

He added: "I think they find the whole German/Nazi thing a big turn-on. That's why it was all characterised and stage that way."

Mr Mosley says that his life was devastated by the article and is asking for an unprecedented award of punitive exemplary damages.

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