Not for the first time, Storz sustained a parallel second career, writing for the Frankfurter Zeitung (newspaper) between 1935 and 1943, when after the withdrawal of government support and several years of declining readership the newspaper was suppressed. Around this time his second marriage broke up. By 1943 the invasion of the Soviet Union was faltering and the tide of the war had turned against Germany. The government responded in February 1943 with a public declaration of "total war". Despite his age Storz was conscripted for military service. War ended and in November 1945 he was able to return from war service and imprisonment. He returned to the school in Schwäbisch Hall where he had been teaching before his conscription: in 1947 he was appointed school director (head). Characteristically, for much of this time he also help a position as director of studies at the newly established teacher training academy housed in the former monastery on the Comburg (hill) on the north side of the town.