2. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany agreed to build camps for asylum seekers and to tighten the border with Austria to save her government.

Separately, we have details of sharply worded letters that President Trump sent last month to leaders of several NATO allies — including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada — taking them to task for spending too little on their own defense.

And we visited Mr. Trump’s ancestral village in Germany. In this dispatch from Kallstadt, our correspondent looked into the relative silence of residents on the connection. “Too controversial,” according to a tourism official.