What is the source for this Goering quote on radar?

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This quote also appears in David irving's The Rise and fall of the Luftwaffe. His reference is footnote 12:

  1. Ibid., pp. 5482 and 5473. Cf Milch’s report on Göring, 17 May 1947: ‘Almost proudly he boasted to anybody he met that he was so untechnically minded that he did not know how to switch on his radio set; one of his servants had to do it for him.’

The Ibid refers back to another footnote

  1. Messerschmitt: memo on industrial conf with Reichsmarschall at Karinhall (FD.4355/45, vol. 2). And especially Göring conf, 18 Mar 1943, stenogram (MD:62, pp. 546Iff). Those present included Göring, Milch, Martini, Dornier, Rottgardt, Plendl, Lüschen, Hertel, Heinkel, Messerschmitt, Franke, Kammhuber, Peltz and Nallinger. Cf diary, 18 Mar 1943: ‘At Karinhall: the chiefs of development. Major onslaught!’

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