 Borchers was officially credited with shooting down 132 enemy aircraft in more than 800 combat missions, the majority were claimed on the Eastern Front and two were claimed in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain together.After World War II he and his wife, Christl Cranz, founded a Ski school which she led until 1987.Matthews and Foreman, authors of "Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims", researched the German Federal Archives and state that Borchers was credited with 132 aerial victories, including two on the Western Front and the others on the Eastern Front.