Getting a theme for a spanking story is tough when you check on its implementation.

I read a romance book series about 3 new female US middle school teachers.

Book 2 is about a law student who becomes a history teacher because she has to care for her father after her mother died who suffers from dementia. The subject that year is the second world war and the genocide of the Jews. It made me think of this subject and how it was tought to us during 8th/9th grade.We had 3 hours history per week.

Are the British related to the Russian?
The '1st World War' is the 'Great War' to the Brits.
While the '2nd World War' is the 'Great Fatherland War' for the Russians.

We had one week on How the Austrian PFC got to power in Germany. The rest of the year was spend learning that up to six million Jews got killed (murdered my words)
The 2nd world war was 3 pupil/student presentations of 5 minutes each. Our female teacher was like 'oh by the way there was a war as well, but it isn't important.'

One day we went to Düsseldorf to visit the Majdanek trial. You could see a few bored relics getting a fair trial with lawyers doing lawyer speech and a group of NeoNazis claiming the genocide is an invention of the Allies and never happened. When we left during the lunch break I went into a bakery that had a real superb apple pie.
In the end we had a totally useless 6 month term in history.
At the end of the term we went to the old Synagogue that was a museum. As most impressive exhibit they had two park benches. One marked 'ARIER' the other marked 'NON ARIER' Together with a few friends we behaved like 5 year olds claiming 'You are not allowed to sit there'
It took a few days before it made click in your head, that you might not be allowed to sit at the same bench as you friend. In the end these 2 benches had more of an effect than a hundred history lessons. The childish behavior might make a good spanking story but the theme is far too serious for entertainment.

I don't understand this sentence. Are you saying that serious topics aren't entertainment? What are dramas other than serious topics as entertainment? Or are you saying that spanking stories must be of lighter stuff than a serious topic? I disagree there as well.

My take is write the story and make it work. It would be a good challenge for you as an author, be interesting as a different flavor of story, be possibly moving, and for the one-handed readers, give them a chance to rest their wrists. A positive service all around.

Its called the old Synagogue for a reason the Nazi's defiled it and I think it was never consecrated or a house of god again. The Jewish community build the new Synagogue after the war at a less prominent place.
I guess you had similar park benches in the US but the inscription would be Blacks and Whites. If you write a story of a Black janitor whacking a White princess In 1960 you might make the white population retaliate. There are still Germans who might feel its necessary to retaliate by hunting Jews for a Jew giving a German child not respecting their church a whacking.

Some areas of life are too sensitive to create light entertainment.

Actually since 1980 there is a law in Germany saying that children have the right on a non violent upbringing. Only the federal government nowadays is allowed to use force.

Old Synagogue Essen Germany

It is always funny when they state that Germany has the strictest weapon laws. That might be true but there are too many ways to navigate them. You want a gun, you join a shooting club. These clubs normally have enough police men as members who will provide evidence that their pals in the club are trustworthx enough to get a weapon permit card.

I agree, and I suppose that was my entire point. Don't make it light entertainment.

I have a story idea that has sat idle for a long while about an elderly woman recalling an incident when she was a girl and was going to be spanked by her mother for not cleaning her tailor father's store windows only to have the father intervene by informing the mother that it was a moot point since their windows were all broken (Kristallnacht) and they had bigger issues to worry about. Years later she intervenes on her granddaughter's behalf by recounting the incident. Hardly light fare, yet I believe worthy of a story...............if I ever get around to it.

I think this would be akin to writing a story featuring "White Only" and "Coloured" signs. Or dealing with the era when "Irish need not apply" - maybe some Molly Maguires figures handing out spankings to anti-Irish bigots? Or sectarian related spanking during "The Troubles".

The problem with that is that there is no way of writing most those stories without stirring up bad feelings. The closest I've encountered this was an audio drama where Doctor Who (the sixth Doctor) met with Lovecraft. I don't believe that they portrayed Lovecraft's odd brand of racism, but it ends with The Doctor explaining to Lovecraft how repugnant Lovecraft is.

Well, the Soviets would have likely used "Motherland" (as in the expression "Mother Russia"), rather than "Fatherland," a term associated with Germany.

The Russian term I've read about for World War II is the "Great Patriotic War," which was rather ironic since Soviet-style communism theoretically promoted internationalism.

A German television miniseries about five young Germans during World War II was titled the "Generation War"... --C.K.

Another excellent film in German but I believe it's available with sub titles, is Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days). The courtroom scenes really bring home the horrors of Nazi Germany.