It is not known for certain who founded the V Reich that operates in the area around Puentechatarra, but it was undoubtedly someone who stumbled across a vein of 20th century history books and got his neuron whirring with all the National Socialist paraphernalia of European fascism in the 1930s and 1940s. In a departure from the more anarcho-punk attitude and looks of ordinary gang members, this person founded a highly militarised, organised and hierarchical organisation, amassing a large amount of war material in a fortress-like settlement he christened Festung Germania.
As the books of the World of Old spoke of very old dates, and doubting whether there had been another Reich after the third he had read so much about in them, he christened it the Fifth Reich, just in case.

Despite their pretensions, until recently they were a rather pathetic group that used to get beaten up by any faction that crossed their path. But as if fate had intervened, two fortuitous but similar events have turned the tables. In a military bunker, they found cryogenic chambers containing soldiers genetically enhanced for war, stronger but less intelligent. These soldiers were turned into the elite troops of the Fifth Reich, the Ubersoldat. Furthermore, during another routine expedition in search of supplies, a trapdoor was discovered under the rubble of a ruined mansion in the World of Yore. This led to none other than Edward Berhart’s private museum, which contained, among many other things, hundreds of World War II uniforms and weapons, ideal material for equipping the faction’s troops.