anyone ever hear of a cake that has chocolate and raspberry as the filling, crushed nuts arount the sides and is called german something??

Don't know if any of these can be combined to make what you're looking for. But they sounded so good I had to post them.

Chocolate raspberry cake:

http://tinyurl.com/55nm9l

Chocolate raspberry bavarian torte:

http://tinyurl.com/5oap6f

Mozart cake:

http://www.recipezaar.com/36227

Elegant black forest cake:

http://tinyurl.com/56dujc

HTH

thanks for your help but none of those are it