By Walter Geiger. Brian Thomas Thompson, 25, was sentenced to six years in prison followed by nine years on probation by Judge Bill Fears Tuesday in Lamar superior court after pleading guilty to one count of first degree vehicular homicide in connection with a Jan. 31, 2015 crash that killed 21-year-old Kara Holland.
Autarky. Economic self-sufficiency. That is, a country has autarky when it does not need to engage in any sort of international trade. Rather, it produces all of its goods and services within the country. Autarky is rare in the modern world, but some examples include Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and India prior to 1991.
Autarky and Hitler. Hitler pursued a policy of autarky. It was his ambition to make Germany self sufficient. However, this policy of autarky was dependent on his other policy of lebensraum which involved increasing the size of Germany through conquest. In practice Hitler never achieved autarky and depended on the import of oil, even though Germany did expand to include all occupied territories.