Mosley call-girls deny Nazi role-play

One of call-girls who participated in a sado-masochistic orgy with motorsport boss Max Mosley (pictured) rallied to his defence yesterday, supporting his claim that the evening's entertainment reported by the News of the World did not involve any form of Nazi role-play. The woman, who wasn't identified for legal reasons (in court she was referred to as woman D), took the stand at the High Court as a witness in Mosley's landmark breach of privacy action against the newspaper.

Mosley, the 68-year-old son of the 1930s Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, said on Tuesday: "A Nazi theme would be abhorrent to me - and I suspect that none of the women would wish to take part should anyone suggest such a theme." And woman D, who is in her 20s and a student, supported his claim, saying: "I am particularly appalled at the accusations that our scenarios had any Nazi connotation or overtones. No Nazi images, uniforms or material were used. I did not see anything Nazi."

Another witness, a German known as woman B, concurred. "It's an insult and offence if a newspaper equates German with being a Nazi – my grandparents were not members of that party." She had worn a Luftwaffe jacket, but insisted it was a new one and not from the Third Reich period.

Woman A, who arranged the orgy, was tackled about a remark she made, recorded on the video of the orgy, which had been posted on the News of the World website, in which she could be heard saying: "But we are the Aryan race, the blondes." She claimed that she did not know the meaning of the word 'Aryan'. Of the role-playing she said: "It's like children playing cowboys and Indians. It's adults playing, having fun. We set a scenario and run with it. It's play-acting."

The court heard that Mosley spent tens of thousands of pounds pursuing his sexual fantasies with the five women, who were each paid £500 a time. He took one of the women on two trips to Monte Carlo and paid another £35,000 to cover her rent for a year, as well as "underwriting" group sex nights at a club in north London. He dismissed allegations that the girls had worn the German concentration camp uniforms, but admitted that German accents had been used while he was lashed by the girls.

He said the use of German "added to the excitement of a scenario", adding: "German also somehow sounds appropriate for a bossy dominant character. It is a harsh-sounding - rather than a romantic - language." The case continues.