Wikipedia has the following pie chart showing the word origins:



It shows the breakdown as


Latin (including words used only in scientific / medical / legal contexts) ≈ 29%
French ≈ 29%
Germanic ≈ 26%
Greek ≈ 6%
Others ≈ 10%


It cites some references which back up these numbers but I don't have access to those.

To answer your question, it does not appear to be true that 50% of words are Germanic. However, that probably depends on what your context is. If you exclude scientific, medical, and legal, you will probably find a much lower incidence of Latin words. Given that English is itself a Germanic language, it's more surprising that Germanic doesn't account for MORE of the vocabulary.

How much of the English language comes from each of its influences?
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