Tilo Koch, born in Karl Marx Stadt, now Chemnitz, in 1968 was a young GDR border officer working in Berlin the night the Wall was opened.
In a documentary film shown on German television today he said that had he received the order to shoot at those storming his border crossing point, he would have done his duty and opened fire.
Bornholmer Straße was the first border crossing point to be breached on the night of November 9, 1989.
It's unlikely that the Wall would have come down so easily had there not been a European Union in place to support the Germans.
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