 In November, the Ustaše removed between thirty and forty SDK officers from transports moving through Zagreb, after which they were summarily executed.In December, Ljotić arranged for the release of Nikolaj Velimirović and Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Gavrilo Dožić from the Dachau concentration camp.Velimirović had been imprisoned by the Germans in July 1941 on the suspicion that he was a Chetnik sympathizer and Ljotić had written several letters to German officials that summer, urging them to release the Bishop on account that he had allegedly praised Hitler before the war.