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I am afraid that it does not show how the Germans were thinking but more how the allied were thinking. I would not trust information from a AID(K) report too much. Several German pilots cooked up stories just to please their interrigators (or to mislead them).
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And others sang like birdies! Not only German aircrew but Allied aircrew as well. If you follow through ADI(K) reports for any specific topic, you will find that they have cross-checked info from previous capture information about particular units, and "personalities" within those units. So, I imagine that somewhere in their filing system was something on Oberfeldwebel Hans SCHAEFER, and what he did, and if it seemed logical for him to be flying around in a P-47. I would say that between 1942 and about July 1944 when the Allied interrogators were becoming overwhelmed with prisoners, the level of interrogator competence was very high, and they didn't simply accept at face value whatever they were being told.