Judicial Caning In The Punishment Stocks
I can’t identify the uniforms in this severe caning scene, but I imagine it’s a judicial punishment in progress. The spanking bench conveniently outfitted with wooden pillory-style restraints speaks to me of an institution that dishes out quite a lot of this sort of discipline:
Artwork is by Helga Bode.
Update: the Spanking Art wiki has a smaller version with an original caption in German that seems to confirm this punishment is taking place at a police station:
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Love the stocks! Any guess as to the year?
It seems like not much is known about this artist, but a bunch of her stuff seems to have been published in the 1920s and/or 1930s.