Before the war ended Torhorst had been released from the labour camp and returned to Berlin. Here she returned to the job in the archives department job with the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft" ("loosely, "German Society for Business Administration"") in which she had already been employed between 1939 and her arrest in 1943. During the final months of the war she was also involved in looking after German prisoners of War under the auspices of the .