I don't know how to explain my mistake any better than you all do.
But I reassert that I have been around Germans (or German speakers) almost all my life—in fact, I work with an Austrian —so it is a mystery even to me why I didn't recognize the accent with which I am most familiar.
But I reassert that I have been around Germans (or German speakers) almost all my life—in fact, I work with an Austrian —so it is a mystery even to me why I didn't recognize the accent with which I am most familiar.