Herta Haas

[3][4] She joined the revolutionary workers movement in high school and worked as a courier between groups in Yugoslavia and France.

[1] Partisan supporters hid Haas and her son from Nazi German authorities and their allies, but she was eventually caught and arrested.

[2] By the time Haas was released and rejoined the Partisans in 1943, Tito was having an affair with his personal secretary Davorjanka Paunović, who was code named "Zdenka".

[2] Haas and Tito suddenly separated in 1943 in Jajce during the second meeting of AVNOJ after she reportedly walked in on him and Davorjanka Paunović.

[2] Haas reportedly met Tito only once after World War II during a visit to his presidential office in Belgrade.