On the 26th of March 1944 a small group of German soldiers
Were ambushed by a group of partisans in a forest near Near
They were all shot to death and their bodies dumped into a nearby lake
The youngest of these German soldiers was twenty-four years old
His name was Otto Dann and he had been born in Bavaria
In 1988 a group of hikers from Zurich vanished in the same area
No trace was found of them despite extensive and long searches
The whole incident remained a mystery until a pop group
That had named itself Nazi War Mysteries recorded a hit record
Its title was Deutsche Liebesgeschichte or German Love Story
The lead singer was called Otto Dann and he was the son of Hilda Mass
Who had vanished along with a group of her fellow Swiss hikers in 1988
Otto Dann his mother told him had been named after his late father
Who had been killed by a group of partisans forty fours years previously
But had found a true and eternal love on that late summers day
When the Swiss hikers had decided to rest and later swim in the haunted lake