Because of the air raids, forced labourers were often not on time for work or their return to camp. Sometimes they were then arrested on charges of an alleged escape attempt.

Raissa Stepiko worked at NAG-Büssing in Schöneweide and was housed at a camp on Sterndamm in Johannisthal.

On Sunday she sometimes went to the black market on Alexanderplatz. In 1998, she described consequences for returning late to the camp in a testimony.