LONDON - The scandal would likely have been a ho-hum tale of sex and bondage of little interest to jaded Europeans were it not for two things. The man holding the whip was one of the most powerful men in motor racing. And when he ordered his "prisoners" to submit, he was speaking in a practiced German that called up disturbing images of a distant past.

The man was Max Mosley, president of the international body that governs Formula One Racing - and the son of Oswald Mosley, the controversial founder in the 1930s of the pro-Nazi British Union of Fascists.

Mosley’s five-hour encounter with five women in a bondage orgy has prompted accusations of Nazi role-playing and engulfed the Formula One racing world in a leadership crisis that prompted the sport’s ruling body Wednesday to announce a meeting of its governing assembly on June 3 to decide whether Mosley can keep his post.

The controversy heated up even further when a judge in Britain allowed Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World to air on its Web site a videotape excerpt of the encounter between Mosley and the women. The racing chief says the session as a consensual adult gathering and the airing of the tape an invasion of his privacy.

The newspaper also published an interview with a woman who said she was one of several prostitutes hired by Mosley to pose as Nazi guards and prisoners.

Mosley, 67, now faces calls from Formula One drivers, manufacturers and automobile associations to resign as president of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, world motor sport’s governing body.

But here is the REALLY stupid part… Mosley’s parents were both interned during World War II because of their support for the Nazi regime in Germany. His mother was the former Diana Mitford Guinness, one of the celebrated Mitford society sisters. She and Oswald Mosley were married in 1936 in the Berlin home of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

Max Mosley has admitted having a sex session with the women but claims it had nothing to do with Nazism. He said he speaks German in parts of the video because one of his sex partners was German.

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