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A fact from Walter Borchers appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Walter Borchers was one of three brothers, all three received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II?

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needs inline citations that are clearly linked to sources. --Auntieruth55 (talk) 01:51, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Date of Death:

The article has two different dates of death.

22, March 1944 in the lead paragraph. 6, March 1945 above his photograph. (the night of) 5, March 1945 in the paragraph describing his last action would correspond to 6, March 1945. Driftwood87 (talk) 13:03, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

good spot March 6 is correct MisterBee1966 (talk) 22:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]