"It is crudely general to suggest collective responsibility for the German populace. It is, however, fair to suggest that those who continued to defend the idea of Germanhood publicly as the war went on—when this had become synonymous with barbarity—were in fact renouncing their humanity for the sake of individual survival and peace of mind."
Panayiotis Demopoulos, Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music
Keep in mind that this is an 'average' and that exogenous events can greatly affect the normalized results.
Chart courtesy of friend Brian at ContraryInvestor. 
Gold Seasonality with Gold 2010 Daily Price Chart Overlay
