His works bring a critical perspective to the rise of National Socialism among the ethnic Germans of south eastern Europe and the Balkans.
[1] Böhm lives in Dinklage, Germany, and has published numerous studies and books on the recent history of Romania.
Dr. Johann Böhm has been publishing since 1989[2] the biannual journal "Halbjahresschrift für südosteuropäische Geschichte, Literatur und Politik" (Half-Yearly Publication of South Eastern European History, Literature and Politics), supported by William Totok, Dieter Schlesak, Klaus Popa and others.
In a report on the awarding of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to the historian, the newspaper Ziua of March 15, 2006 noted that "Johann Böhm's work is marked by two crucial moments that led him to deal with the history of the last century.
In all published works, the historian tried to find an answer to an obsessive question: to what extent was the situation of the German minority in Romania influenced by the evolution of the bad political processes in interwar and Nazi Germany."