There is no 'if it is' about it, this is definitely a Bundeswehr cap, and I would respectfully suggest that it is something your father picked up from the 1980's onwards. Bundeswehr militaria was - and still is quite easy to come by in England, and there is no need to travel to Germany to purchase it.
Maybe it’s silly to form conjectures, but I can easily envision a wife asking “where did this come from?” and a husband answering “I brought it back from the war” rather than admit he bought it at pawn shop/whathaveyou because he thought it was cool...
Lol - I can't say my dad wouldn't have done something like that ! But all due respect to him though he was involved with D Day, Belsen etc but didn't talk about it very much. I do know that he wasn't a worrier because he always said if he could get through a war he could get through anything!
Just on a technical point, and I'm assuming that your father was British if he was involved in the 'liberation' of Belsen, but he would have served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), rather than the 'Ammunition Corps'.
As stated by numerous others, the cap is a post war Bundeswehr other ranks' peaked cap of the Pioneer Arm, as denoted by the black waffenfarbe (piping). These can be readily found in the UK at a trivial cost.
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