He strove for the scientific study of dance research and published related essays such as Materialien zu einer soziologischen Untersuchung des künstlerischen Tanzes.
According to his own statement, he wanted to use his active involvement to prevent the destruction of Ausdruckstanz and the ideological capture of the folk dance circles by the National Socialists.
In order to achieve these two goals, Böhme used – obvious in the case of this recipient of the letter – a National Socialist vocabulary that today strongly compromises him, and which has not been demonstrated in this consistency in his work before or since (according to the current state of research).
Since a "liberalistic conception of art" is much more applicable to expressive dance, it can be assumed that Böhme intended to deceive politicians with this letter and that his own reasons for his intentions are quite plausible.
It is at least certain that Böhme did not represent a National Socialist view of modern artistic dance in his critiques, despite occasional formulations typical of the time in this regard.
He continued to write factually and positively about modern dancers such as Dore Hoyer, whose dance style was judged negatively by National Socialist critics.