World War I Iron Cross with a black and white ribbon awarded to a German soldier

The medal was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Susan Shear. 

World War I Iron Cross with a black and white ribbon awarded to a German soldier 

World War I Iron Cross awarded to Stefan Deutsch for bravery in combat while serving in the German Army. 

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Blackened iron medal in the form of a cross pattee with concave arms and a reeded line border. The front has an embossed vertical design: at the top of the central arm is a crown, then the letters FW, a sprig of 3 oak leaves with 2 acorns, and, at the bottom, the date 1813. On the reverse, descending from the top, is a crown, in the center a W, and at the bottom, the date 1914. A suspension ring is attached at the top, with a bail threaded with a vertically striped grosgrain ribbon with a wide black center stripe flanked by medium white, then narrow black stripes.