Between 1933 and 1939 Dorn was working in Munich as a fashionable freelance sculptor. Most of his pieces remained in Bavaria and many of the more significant ones were prominently displayed in Munich. Partly on account of this, much of his work was degraded or destroyed by British and American aerial bombing during the Second World War. In 1933 the National Socialists had taken power and transformed the country into a one-party dictatorship which lasted for slightly more than twelve years. Austria was formally integrated into Nazi Germany in 1938. Through the filter of subsequent decades, most available sources are silent on the details of Alois Dorn's relationship with National Socilialism during these years. According to at least one source, however, Alois Dorn became a party member in May 1938. Although he was not much of a political activist, there are instances that can be adduced to show that he was broadly sympathetic towards aspects of government policy that mainstream opinion after 1945 found deeply unpalatable. Investigation of Dorn's own archived papers indicates that in 1935 he became a member of the , the organisation for visual artists created by the party, membership of which would greatly have eased his professional progress under the dictatorship.