The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

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Green politician

From 1983 to 1985 Fischer was a member of the Bundestag for the Green party. His nickname Joschka is derived from the Hungarian Jóska diminutive of Joseph (Hungarian József).

Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born April 12 1948) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s and according to opinion polls he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election in which the Schröder government was defeated he left office on November 22 2005.