this was a gift to my dad in ww2 by a german prisoner

carving

German troops surrendering to the Allies near the town of Landeck, western Austria, 1945.

End of the line...

I found this photo on fb but without any info.I looked up the name on the roadsign.Wilkawischken was a small place in the former Eastern part of Germany,situated in the administrative region Tilsit-Ragnit.The Germans called it Wildhegen.Now it's part of the Russian federation.
So this photo was probably taken some months before war's end.