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. He was born in Romania, where he lived the dictatorial system imposed on the German minority by the National Socialist Party, through the German Ethnic Group in Romania, and secondly, the post-war career of Nazi leaders in the Federal Republic of Germany. 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.""