Ernst-Thälmann-Island "(Spanish: Cayo Ernesto Thaelmann)" is a 15 km long and 500 m small Cuban Island in the Bay of Pigs, Located at 22°01'18" - 81°23'32 to 22°04' - 81°27'24" in the northeastern edge of the Gulf of Cazones. It contains highly developed reef formations with a high degree of biodiversity and hosts a number of endangered species, including black coral and various ornamental reef fish species. It has extensive pristine beaches and provides nursery areas for snappers. The island is uninhabited, other than occasional tourists and the indigineous iguanas and birds that have their habitat there. The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de (los) Cochinos) is a bay on the southern coast of Cuba. ...

In 1972 Cuban leader Fidel Castro made the island a symbolic gift to East Germany. The island was named after German Communist politician Ernst Thälmann (April 16, 1886—August 18, 1944), who was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Fidel Castro Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926), has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first Communist-led state in the Western Hemisphere. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... Ernst Thälmann memorial in Weimar. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 _ Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Communist Party of Germany (in German, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands – KPD) was formed in December of 1918 from the Spartacist League, which originated as a small factional grouping within the Social Democratic Party (SPD) opposed to the First World War on the grounds that it was an imperialist war in... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (Pronounced Vye-Mar, and in German it is known as the Weimarer Republik). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German monarchy... The Gestapo was the official secret police force of Nazi Germany. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Imperial chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Weblinks

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Th%E4lmann_Insel (in German)
• http://www.ernst-thaelmann-insel.de (in German)