NASA experts dropped a disused battery pack from the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2021. The idea is that the batteries would orbit the earth, slowly sinking - and eventually burning up in the atmosphere.
The exact time of the crash depends, among other things, on the current solar activity. It is considered possible that some of the encapsulated batteries could survive the fall. But there is no indication that Germany is particularly at risk as a result of the battery pack's fall to Earth.