Pohl's attitude towards the Nazi regime was described in his autobiographical résumé at the request of the Occupying Forces (second part). According to this source, he never joined a political party, and his attitude towards the National Socialists ranged from reserved to hostile; he was convinced from the beginning of the eventual defeat of Germany in the Second World War (he had contacts to the Goerdeler Group; his contact, the teacher lecturer Hermann Kaiser, was sentenced to death and was executed on the 23 January 1945 in Berlin-Ploetzensee). Following the War, he was active in re-establishing the University of Göttingen, until 1948 as a member of the Denazification Commission.